Blogging is for teenage girls crying in their bedrooms

Or so said Ben Werdmuller’s university employer.

I just love this very specific and absurd description of blogging and who it’s for.

I blog because I like writing, I like rambling, and I occasionally even have thoughtful or interesting and possibly witty things to say.

And what better place to say these things than on something I have direct control over? No one can come up to me here and say, “You’re not a teenage girl and you’re not even crying. What are you doing, you huge poser?” Well, technically, someone could say this, but I disabled comments on this blog years ago due to a bot problem I was disinclined to invest the time to resolve, since only bots wanted to comment.

Hopefully those bots are out there, somewhere, crying mechanical tears. And possibly blogging about it in binary code.