Blogging used to be a simple matter of a person writing their ideas, everyday life, politics, down on a blog site for anyone to see. However, blogging has now evolved into vlogging. Vlogging is the new term used for people who use videos of anything and everything to express a thought or idea instead of just writing it down on a regular blog site. The obvious forerunners of the blogging industry are YouTube, Podcasts, Vodcasts, etc. I believe that this new attempt at blogging by video drastically changes the entire concept. It makes the process much more personally as a person can judge the blogger by their appearance or voice. People inherently judge at an instance taking in these certain aspects. Regardless, vlogging has become the next step.
One particular video blog that I found interesting is about British girl named Kate who tells funny stories about her life and what she does everyday. The thing that caught my attention to her blog however was the fact the she actually responded to people’s comments. In her first blog she half joking/kidding said that she did not expect any comments or posts to her video. However, her next video blog is the day after and she is so excited that she has over ten thousands views and hundreds of comments. Watching her intense excitement about her over the night popularity, has made me realize a new phenomenon these video blogs are starting to have. Untold numbers of people video blog random segments of their lives and hope for thousands of views because they want to feel excepted by the world. People are starting to find social acceptance through the web and internet based upon an ephemeral and non physical relationship.
Disturbingly enough, later in her video blogs she reveals her obsession and profession with video games. She lives in London, England and works at a local video game store. She claims that it is the love of her life and the best job a girl like her could hope for. In one brief scene it shows her rolling in a pile of her video games laughing like an insane crack head. Someone comments on this video and asks her if she damaged any of her games in her rolling fun. She video blogs back that only one of the cases was slightly bent and that the rest were perfectly fine. Kate tells the camera that she not only talks to her games she has a special relationship with her favorite two (I really do not want to ask how that works!) I realize that this girl has so saturated herself in a virtual world that she relational values video games on the same level as people. I find this not only pathetic but tragic because I really don’t think that she is kidding.
Katers 17, the alias that this CRAZY girl goes by, has a myspace page that reveals her entire life and has over twenty home made videos. Does Kate live her life and find her identity more through her vlogging than actual reality?
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