BLOGSTER VERSUS mybloggers

My main blogging sites are Blogster and MyBloggers. I am not sure of the sequence of events but Eddie who owns MyBloggers was once the owner of Blogster and I have been blogging at the former since he started it and at the latter since January (?) 2006. ALL THE FOLLOWING IS MY OPINION AND HOW I SEE THE DIFFERENT BLOGGING SITES. I do post all the same blogs at both sites.

Blogster certainly has more
'bells and whistles' than MyBloggers but most of that really doesn't
interest me except for downloading pictures and a new feature that AJ pointed out to me yesterday--the 'share' icon. Like I post the same blogs at both sites so do many people who started at Blogster and then went to MyBloggers. Donna and Robin, just to name two, prefer posting and commenting at Blogster while AJ and Alfredo prefer MyBloggers. Now I find that, with dial up, I can download MyBloggers pages faster than I can Blogster pages. I do find both easy enough for me--Internet challenged :O)--to post a blog with pictures.

All
the stats both offer don't interest me and i am still trying to figure
out the whole 'friends' thing and the purpose of it. I subscribe to
about the same amount of blogs at each site and prefer commenting at MyBloggers though in the case of
someone like Maria I will comment at both sites. One thing I have been
unable to figure out is how to get to a past blog--say from last year--without having to go page through page though someone did tell me once on the old Blogster but i don't remember.

Now here we get to what is, in my opinion, the main differences between the two sites; the bloggers and the blogs. At Blogster the people seem more angry, more prone to name calling, to being
negative, to want to start trouble, have little respect for anyone not
like them. I can only point to one person at MyBloggers who is a trouble
maker, who calls people obscene names and shows no one respect. At Blogster there are at least 4 who will trash you, who are not happy if things are going smoothly. Granted Blogster is more political than MyBloggers which causes emotions to run high but
there is also a religious element that does anything but follow the
teachings of the bible that they profess to follow. Only at Blogster do I see republicans, right wing conservatives calling the President, the Speaker of the House, democrats, Gays, Blacks, Muslims, etc., all sorts of derogatory names.

I
am not a political animal and have only recently got an education from
ekyprogressive, a democrat, who posts blogs of facts giving links to
back up his facts with some, a little, of his own editorilizing. I have
tried to find his republican counter point but most of them just
scream, rant, rave, gibe personal opinons and very little facts. Yes, I
would like to learn more about both sides of a question but, from what
I have seen so far, that doesn't seem possible.

I have found more young people posting at Blogster but they seem to be whiners about their love life, or lack of one, jobs
and other people. Maybe I am too old to appreciate that that is what
young people blog about! I am a gay activist and find more articles, and comments, putting gay people down at Blogster than at MyBloggers but then again that may be due to the political and religious bloggers there. I find more gay bashers at Blogster than any other site I blog at. I, also, find at Blogster the strangeness of blocking people from making comments on their blog. Why blog if you don't want to hear other people's opinions even if they disagree
with you? Why maker nasty comments to and about people and then hide
behind a blog? Sorry it doesn't make sense to me. Anyone can comment and say what they want on my blogs, and they have, which doesn't mean I won't answer back. Of course I have a sarcastic sense of humor which is hard to imply in written text so people can read my comments wrongly and some do.

With all this why do I blog at Blogster? I am a loyal person and it was Blogster that got me started in the world of blogging and I will always be grateful but for a more important reason than that
is that I found friends here like Robin, James, Donna, Maria just to
mention a few, that blog at Blogster.
Also, it is possible to have debates, arguments, whatever you want to
call them, without getting angry, calling names and agreeing to
disagree like the one who responded to my "I Don't Usually Talk About
This Blog" where we got into a discussion of DADT and gay marriage. We are both on opposite sides of the fence so be it. Every evening I go over the 50 most recent blogs and I know I can skip reading at least 40 of them though I do admit I
will once in awhile read a political or christian one, like I did last
night, where gays are bashed and told to forget equal rights, and when
I am being smart I just move on without commenting. Yes, sometimes I do
comment! :O) I find that Blogster bloggers while/when asking for opinions and or advice really don't want your opinion or advice unless it agrees with theirs!
The funniest comment I ever had at Blogster, and they didn't mean it to
be funny, was that I hated women because I was gay!! Or was it because
I was gay that I hated women?  LOL

I find the staff behind Blogster to be very helpful and quick to answer questions though I am still trying to find out why/how they marked a blog about Doris Day controversial?!?!?!? I will continue to blog at blogster and try to avoid the rude, crude, troublemakers there who use gutter
language and show disrespect for anyone who isn't a white,  republican,
bibletotaling, WASP male! What I find amusing is that they read and comment on each other's blogs telling each other how great they are like they are afraid to disagree or they will be thrown out of the 'club'. LOL

MyBloggers is a different 'animal' than Blogster. MyBloggers bloggers,
with one exception, are laid back, polite, kind people who talk about
their lives, what they do on a day to day basis, give off good vibes,
are not out to hurt anyone, share helpful information and when they
write a political blog it is hwo they feel not how they are told to feel. MyBloggers bloggers share more of their life with other bloggers and back each other up with advise, both giving and taking it. They
like to smile and laugh at their own foibles and don't mind if people
laugh with them. Again, with that one exception, MyBloggers bloggers aren't out to hurt each other and there was one trouble maker who was quickly put in their place so they ran off back to Blogster to start trouble there!

In spite of my negative comments regarding Blogster I do like blogging there and find most people to be civil as long as the subject isn't politics or religion and mother did warn us about not talking about those two subjects. I hope to be blogging at Blogster and MyBloggers for many years to come and would like to shout out to all the friends I have made at both sites. For new bloggers looking for a site to blog I would suggest either and/or both--they can be as simple as you want them to be and both sites have people ready to help you.