Moaning versus nice comments on TonbridgeBlog....

One recent comment hit the nail on the head when they said that it's much easier to write negative things than positive. I have had a go at many things over the three or four years that this blog has been running. I hope though that it's never been done gratuitously but rather with good reason. You see it's also easy to write positive things about the flowers and the few lovely Spring like days we are having or about the lovely snowy days we had sledging and larking about throwing snow balls at our children and friends. Why does no one remember those posts? I guess because ultimately they are just nice comments on the world around us and, just like the national news, become the "And finally" type stories. What people really want to see is a place to vent their frustrations and sense of injustice about the inertia in local government, the miss-spending of our money, corruptness of politicians, cases of traffic wardens' officiousness, and yes shops which give a bad service. This is clearly shown by the number of comments, demonstrating that people are moved enough to put finger to keyboard, against moaning-type stories versus the positive stories or nice photos. As a blogger I guess I'm influenced by what people seem to like reading and commenting about. If anything I try not to be too much so but it's a tricky road to walk along. I'll continue to write some nice positive stories and commnets but on the other hand, as I've said before, I'll only stop moaning when there's nothing left to moan about....