Comments on: 40% of Bloggers #!%@’ing Swear on their Blogs [POLL RESULTS]

By: devjargon

devjargon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:27:59 +0000

I prefer not to swear. I don’t really see the point in it. I don’t have a problem with it though, if you can’t find something else to say, swear.

By: Sangeeta Sinha

Sangeeta Sinha — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:48:36 +0000

It happens; after all to err is human. Sometimes people cannot control their emotions and swear. In future, think before swearing. After all, it is not a healthy habit.

By: Sangeeta Sinha

Sangeeta Sinha — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:49:41 +0000

Swearing’ by itself is against etiquette and on a blog? No, never.

By: Daniel Mcgonagle

Daniel Mcgonagle — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:33:18 +0000

Right on! So glad to hear this.

I got a little emotional on one of my posts and swore, but it was a deserved profanity since it was a product review.

Thanks for this post, it makes me feel normal, again,

Daniel McGonagle
http://marketersrelief.com

By: Chris Campbell

Chris Campbell — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:41:01 +0000

Whether swearing is done in the office, in public, at home or online in your blog, our service has been created to help everyone break that potty mouth habit.

Cheers!

By: MTT

MTT — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:22:09 +0000

What’s the big deal? :-?

By: Tom Volkar / Delightful Work

Tom Volkar / Delightful Work — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:44:56 +0000

It’s all in ones perspective isn’t it? Perhaps to regulate oneself too much would make one feel inauthentic. I think a bigger problem than cussing is people’s nutso fear of offending someone. We all can’t want to be that appropriate can we? I like to let my wild self shine when it feels like coming out. Why be little Stepford wife blogging clones when we can be our badass selves and have so much more fun? Don’t go running to my blog thinking you’ll read a bunch of foul language. I’m just reserving my right to do so in the future.

By: RandomThinker

RandomThinker — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:21:12 +0000

Interesting stats. Nice to see that though 40% do swear, 60% don’t. I choose not to swear for a few reasons.

1. I don’t swear on a daily basis.

2. You can offend people by swearing, but most likely will not offend someone by not swearing.

3. Swearing is completely unnecessary. If you’ve got a decent command of the English language, there are other words that can be used in place of an expletive.

By: Adrian @ Path to Your Destiny

Adrian @ Path to Your Destiny — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:46:39 +0000

I second quite a few of the other comment-ers here – used sparingly, I think cursing can work incredibly well for comedic effect, to stress a point you want to make, or make a story more vivid and interesting.

But I also think it matters what your blog audience and topic is; more pop culture-based blogs can get away with more frequent cursing than, say, a blog about personal development (like mine) or a topic more “weighty”, such as religion.

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:05:56 +0000

I feel that when the time is right, and the words make sense… Well, blogging is an alternative form of artistic expression, yes? At least for some of us.

By: Blackberry

Blackberry — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:48:11 +0000

Personally I find swearing offensive and un-necessary.

By: patagoniacommunity

patagoniacommunity — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:08:56 +0000

Interesting, indeed. I think that 40% is right around where I would’ve guessed it would be. Some probably use swearing to create a bit of community and encourage the idea that the blog isn’t an official letter from a corporation or press release from an organization. And like “Brad’s Reader” above, I just feel a need to do it, myself.

By: Aruni

Aruni — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:49:53 +0000

Personally I don’t swear because I don’t think I can pull it off. Plus I think my mom (who is subscribed to my blog) would be appalled. I don’t swear in my day to day life much either.

The only blog I’ve read where I have not been turned off by swearing is Naomi’s IttyBiz blog. She is so cool and just makes me laugh. She times her swearing very well. :-) http://ittybiz.com/

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:44:32 +0000

Who f$&%$*king cares???

By: Brad's Reader

Brad's Reader — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:21:01 +0000

I generally don’t swear on my blog. Why? I don’t find it necessary. Also, there are a lot of people who get easily turned off by swearing and won’t visit a blog again. But I’ve never heard of anyone not visiting a blog because of a lack of curse words.

I also want to maintain a “professional” image on my blog and I doubt swearing would help me do that. That’s just my opinion though.

Interesting poll!

By: Kelvin Kao

Kelvin Kao — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:02:22 +0000

I think swearing can be used for effects. When there’s a “fricking”, you are building up the anticipation for the next word to be important and sort of unexpected. If that’s over-used, it would lose its own effect.

I used to write comedy sketches in college to be performed. My sketches tend to be really clean in terms of language, so if a character suddenly use a curse word, it’s ususally much more dramatic, unexpected, and the audience laughs more, as that point in plot is marked as being important and a huge twist. I think the same applies to blogging, which is a form of writing too.

By: Andy MacDonald - SEO & Marketing Blog

Andy MacDonald - SEO & Marketing Blog — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:30:18 +0000

Thats a shocking result. If your blogging for business or in any professional manner i think you should never swear on your blog. on the other hand if its a personal blog, about yourself, then i think if the swearing reflects your personality in the offline world, i don’t think its all that bad to do it in the online world either.

Each to their own i guess.

By: Suburban Oblivion

Suburban Oblivion — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:29:55 +0000

I do cuss on my blog, but I have 3 kids, so it kind of comes with the territory ;)

By: Joe Aiello

Joe Aiello — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:18:03 +0000

I agree with the Majority. I don’t curse on any of my baseball blogs.

By: jhay

jhay — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:54:07 +0000

Well, at least it proves that real humans are writing blogs and that we have some great deal of respect about blogging.