The Five Classes of Bloggers

I can see five kinds of bloggers out there:
The geeks. I don’t read those pages, ‘cause they tend to look very confusing, have lots of features on them, graphics, tag boards, chat rooms, online computer games. Visibly, for guys who live on the internet and don’t account for much else.

The historians. I sometimes bookmark those if I come across a good one. These are people who are passionate about society and politics, internal and international, and are compelled to share their opinions and views with the citizens of the web. Most of them upgrade their web pages regularly, because by definition they always have something to say. The headlines of the day provide them eternally with subjects.

The moms. Family oriented pages! They report on their children, write often with the same passion as the historians, only their world is the home. Most of them seem to be housewives, or at least on maternity leave for the time being, also most of them seem to have infants, and the infant then often has a web page of his/her own.

The students. Into this category fall possibly a few sub categories, depending on what the bloggers put the emphasis: There are those who just left their homes (or not) for college, and recount the student life, the classes, the papers to write, the exams, the friends, and not least: the parties. There are also the ones who are studying abroad and give reports to their family and friends through their blog. Also, I would put into the same category newly graduates, who may have just started their first job, because the blogs seem to resemble the former, only jobs and exciting/ frustrating/ promising careers now replace what used to be school.

The philosophers. The essence of blogging: They seem to blog first of all for themselves. I guess the purpose is not necessarily to have readers but to have an arena to ponder, muse and rant, depending. Among the ones I’ve seen, those I find worth reading usually seem to be of a certain age – I would say at least thirty-something, and actually sometimes middle aged … Some are poetic, compelling, touching and some might even classify as literature.

Then I guess there may be a certain flow: students may turn into geeks, or geeks grow up to become normal students, students may eventually turn into moms (that’s life), moms into philosophers, philosophers into historians …