Sometimes words tell the truth. Remember this.
*Before I go any further, I would like to point out that I understand the irony of writing about how boring backpackers are in a blog called “The Backpacker”. After all, travel blogs are a modern-day curse for friends of travellers everywhere - not content to send letters, postcards, or even emails anymore, we now feel compelled to commit our every long bus trip and dodgy meal to the public domain of cyberspace, and expect our friends to pore over them as obsessively as we write them.
Just as Coco warned me, no one cares much about your adventures unless they’ve been to wherever it is you’re wanking on about, or they know the people you were travelling with. Sure, your relatives might put up with looking at a few photos, but everyone else will be bored witless, and the less subtle will let you know all about it. (”Wow, you took 400 photos of African landscapes? They’re all crap.”
Why did people keep a diary, in the days when only they would ever read it? Now you can do it online. The fact it’s on the internet is neither here nor there, except you might be a bit less honest, you still don’t expect anyone to read it, except that you have a sneaking idea that it would be nice if the world beat a path to your door. The key phrase in the quotation is “Before I go any further…” - I hope people don’t read the piece and think it is saying “why bother?”
Everything except the first two sentences are from an article on the net Richard. I was just in a funny mood when I posted this. I was thinking precisely about how interested people are in your stuff, regardless what it is - stories, pictures etc….