Responsibility is for Those Who are Responsible

So today, as I do almost daily, I clicked the link in my statcounter.com profile to see what people had Googled to land on my blog. They are usually really sad, self-deprecating things like, “why doesn’t anyone like me” and “how do I get a boyfriend even though I’m ugly,” which I believe speaks volumes about, well, me.

Sometimes the entries are really random: in the last three days I’ve gotten at least five hits from someone Googling: “Telia paternity test Maury Shardae,” which is from when I was unemployed and spent my days blogging about daytime television. Now that I think about it, I’m a pretty pathetic person, and my blog just reinforces that. But anyway…

Today I got a hit from someone that had Googled: “hooker myspace profile south carolina” which is very, very funny. Then I scrolled down a little ways, and found this entry: “I have HIV.”

My heart kind of hit the floor when I read that. I really hope that it was someone doing research for a high school health class paper or something, and not someone looking for a support group and instead finding me, some perfectly healthy little brat, whining about how everyone that works at Magee is at least mildly retarded. (Because, well, they are, but that’s beside the point. That reader had bigger issues. See what I'm saying?)

Which leads me to this point—by writing for the public, however small a “public” it may be, do we mere bloggers need to take on some degree of social responsibility? I mean, I don’t know. These words are out there for anyone to read. I guess I sort of wonder if/how it affects people.

Ugh. I can’t be socially responsible.
The entry I’d planned to write today was about how, this morning, I stood up from my desk and accidentally farted.



PS, there are a plethora of fart-related cartoons on the internets. I urge you to read all of them.