World Responds: Yeah, probably so.

May 1st, 2006 by Alex

In response to Larry’s previous post, citing an Onion article poking fun at bloggers who overshare, I thought I’d answer the question of whether personal media has gone too far (jumped the shark, if you will).

That answer? Uh, yeah.

Now, don’t get me wrong — there are a million great personal media sites out there, and they still far outweigh the bad. But there are some sites that are just, well, victims of oversharing. Like Almost 40-Year-Old Virgin, the blog of a man who is… well, I guess the title makes it pretty obvious, right? The concept is brilliant, but the execution sometimes leaves me wondering: is this guy still a virgin — not by choice — because he’s a jackass, or is he a jackass because he’s still a virgin? (I know I would be.)

Writing a blog about your continuing failure to lose your virginity after almost 40 years, you start off with a certain amount of sympathy from your audience. And yet, judging by the comments, it seems this guy’s lost it all. No wonder, when you consider his posts, mostly the misogynistic, sometimes even racist, whines of a man who hates women yet wonders why they won’t sleep with him. Still, this isn’t a man searching for his wallet: Almost 40-Year-Old Virgin is, for all its faults, quite an interesting read.

 
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