Blogging - who knew

I have a best friend who follows the blogs of like 25 people. I like to have the things I say put down for the world to read but she is pretty hard core about checkin' in with her blogs. Then again this gives her the worlds gossip, news on the newest hotties, whats new in media, etc. She's a monster of a media whore and I don't fault her for it. I'm normally the one saying "Did you know so and so was dating? When the fuck did this shit happen?" then out of nowhere she looks at me like I'm a massive idiot and says "Dude, they're married, I think have 2 kids by now."

I can't say I don't care about things going on in the media but I'm not an information whore on things like who's dating whom from Twilight. What band is back together. What celeb is going to jail tomorrow for back taxes... I just never really cared about it.

Now I want to actively blog, to give myself an outlet and something to do when the mind races at a hoe-gillion (technical term I swear) miles a minute in the middle of the night. I don't follow Twitter as closely as I'd like because I end up following the people who Tweet 30 thousand times a day. Literally. I know people who will tweet 35 times in a row about nonsensical things and pretend that they were just filling in blanks. I can't follow Kevin Smith anymore for just that reason. I guess it's like Formspring for me, I don't get the point. How many people can care about having their life down to 140 characters or questions? If you're a celebrity I can understand Formspring being cool for your fans. It's open forum of the greatest kind to just throw out all the shit that anyone has ever wanted to ask. Granted for them that is a lot of work to answer all of those questions, but what purpose does it serve for the average person?

I Facebook - no lie I'm a bit of a Facebook whore. I post random videos, funny things here and there and the update of my life at the moment, but even then unless I'm so amped up I can't sleep, bored to tears or I have 30 unrelated things I want to say I don't update more than 5 times a day. I don't Facebook while I'm at work, and I don't do a good enough job of trolling the internet to have that much to post. I wish I could to better but today (in the last 24 hours leading up to now)- and having been home almost all day I have shared one tidbit (Travis Pastrana related) from XGames, posted one video from Youtube, had 2 status updates (one of which asking what I should blog about tonight), made 2 old friends, and managed completely on accident to make one Farmcrack share (Farmville to the rest of you. It's crack, I can't stop playing the damn thing!) I have friends that will post pictures all day, tell the world what they've had for all 3 meals of the day (with photos), inform us they were going to shower... you know who you are... and the like. I'd rather be quippy and have something fun to share rather than turn my life into a status update. Don't get me started on 4 Square, Gowalla and the like.

However, I Buzzed all morning and got to the point where I had to walk away because I didn't want to be that person who is sitting there and after a post or two finds myself having conversations through the comment logs. I think one of my posts today had 16 comm-versations (new word - Comment Conversations = Commversations), sadly one of the prime contributors is my brother and the other was his co-worker and they were in the same building.

Do I have to be an over sharer to be a good blogger? What do people want to read about? Are my Rants Ramblings & Revelries enough to maybe create a following? We will see. But for now, Ramble on!

Song in my head at the moment - Taproot "I" (Album - Gift)