Suspicion

I read many, many blogs (like, more than 100?). To keep them organized I use my handy dandy Google Reader. The vast majority of these blogs are wedding related (wedding planners, wedding photographers, girls planning their weddings, designers, etc). I can't wait to purge my Reader on May 29! (well, I may wait till after the honeymoon) Then I will fill it with all sorts of home decorating blogs! (kidding?)

I don't feel like I've ever been marketed to or relentlessly pursued as I do as a girl planning her wedding. The calls, the emails, the facebook ads.... The point of this entry is this: I heard from a friend that she has a friend who gets paid by a company to create blogs/livejournals and create a personality and life story, and then work in a plug for their product (an online dating service) as time goes on. Ever since hearing this, I've become very distruting of a handful of these blogs that I read. This feels so wrong to me! I know it comes with the territory, but as someone who has been blogging and has enjoyed reading blogs since 2001, I feel violated and used because increasingly, I read the blogs of people I don't know.

That was my rant for today.