My thoughts on Maus's recent post: "Homeblogs, Momblogs, etc."

Attaining fame for Blogging has become the NBA for moms and homemakers - Blog Dreams instead of Hoop Dreams. "Professional Blogging" is even considered an occupation on TV shows like Survivor, same as "YouTube Personality" is considered an occupation.

They start out small, and then work up to having their own line of ugly dishes for sale at Walmart like the Pioneer Woman, or a book and a movie like "Julia and Me." Someone should make a documentary about the failures. It'd make a fine satire, not that I'd want to poke fun at what Hoop Dreams was about. I'm picturing a scene at the Pillsbury Bake Off where some gal who thinks she rules the world of cooking because her blogs about the joys of using crock pot liners got a bunch of hits gets her comeuppance because she doesn't actually know how to cook.

I liken the search for a good blog to be similar to trying to find a good pen pal friend you can rely on to take things the way you mean them. And bloggers/blogs, like friendships, evolve over the years so maybe something we liked about them at some point in their blogging career turns into something else, or they just go away, like HoneyBugg did.

The way I've come across some blogs I enjoyed was googling for certain recipes, knitting information, or other info, and I might end up in a series they wrote years ago, so I spend some time in their archives. A lot of the ones I liked are now trying to please sponsors who send them merchandise and money, so it doesn't feel honest. They are blogging to keep the goodies rolling in, not so much for the joy of sharing information and experiences.

There are Facebook groups about homemaking tips and cooking, and I follow a couple of them, but most of the time I've got them muted for 30 days at a time because I get tired of the egos and drama - even about topics as mundane as toilet cleaning. Entertainment-wise, and I'm using that term loosely, if blogs were the standard at a 10 (and I'm not saying they are a 10 relative to good books or good movies), Facebook posts are about a negative 1 or worse, but they serve a purpose when it comes to community building. By the way, comments to those same Facebook posts quite often deteriorate to a -50 because some people don't know when to stop the one-upmanship.