It’s only been quite recently, following the launching of this blog, that I have actually started looking around at what some of the professional journal writers are doing on the internet.  In the beginning, I was extremely careful to avoid research and any sort of background preparation for fear it would dull my own raw creative imagination… you believe me don’t you?  But from my current foray into cyberspace, what I have found is that the internet is full of pure nonsense, twaddle, rubbish, drivel, claptrap, boloney, and tripe generated by those “professional” writers who are getting paid to crank out formula cyber effluent.  Why you lazy Bloggers, take that (snap) Z (snap)!

My own concentration, of course, has been reading Human Resources blogs or job hunting guides, but the formula they use will actually work with many different subjects (I am sure they lifted it from others).  Once you understand how it is written you can recognize formula articles/entries reading not much further into one than the title and first line. The truth be known, I was being sucked into these blog entries as well, until I recognized how I was being manipulated.

Watch out for blog entry titles like, “College grads taking their parents to job interviews.”  They start out with some outlandish statement as if it were fact.  The first test is if it seems like hogwash to you, you are probably correct. The second tip-off is if the remainder of blog entry consists of authoritative sources saying how stupid this notion is when compared to reality.  This being the case, you have found one of these formula articles or blog entries. 

The appeal of this type of blog writing is the very fact that it begins so outrageously.  It is the same approach used by the supermarket checkout stand tabloids. (Just looking at the guy behind you in line is proof enough that space aliens are among us; or that in 1987, a baby was born with two heads.  Unfortunately the smarter, better-looking one was surgically removed by mistake and the black dyed-hair individual with matching eyeliner, accented by multiple piercing, and who is standing directly ahead of you is all that’s left.)

Here is the scam in a nut shell; the writer refers to some incident or situation (probably rare) and pins some really outrageous statement to a (supposedly) authoritative source, and then holds this validation up as proof of the fact, for example, that this is a growing trend that is quite widespread and becoming the norm. 

The writer may have only read someone else’s obscure account of this happening (the more bizarre the better).  All the writer has to do in the guise of original research and investigative journalism is to access competent authorities who are naturally quite willing to denounce this cockamamie notion of the way things are or what is currently a wide spread practice, to typically say that’s nuts to think anything like that even slightly aligns with reality or their experience in the matter.

What you believe you get from reading a blog entry like this is vindication, you recognized right away that this was crazy, stupid, and imbecilic clap trap, and now all these experts agree with you. What you actually got, I am afraid to say, is you time wasted.  I can guarantee you that experts or authorities on a subject will always respond to something that is profoundly stupid, by finding that it is indeed asinine. 

What you need to do is save your appetite for silly, absurd, ridiculous, idiotic, frivolous, and childish blogs to read mine.  Besides, who else involves you in the search for the perfect blog closing line?  In the spirit of the inane, I am serving up this time the following: