It's not at all shocking to me that people *think* these things (I know *I* think these things!). It's just, I guess, that I've spent a lot of time practising sitting on my hands and saying "it's not about me"... and just listening to what other people have to say about their experiences of the world. It feels really *rude* (to me) to step into someone else's blog and start shouting at them for being rude to me when I've had no interaction with them previously; to take advantage of their willingness to talk to use up their tuits by dragging the conversation off to be about me.

I guess not everyone knows that, or has experienced having their arguing tuits eaten up by repeating the same basic statements over and over again; people are rarely completely precise in their statements, it's a feature of human languages, making one's blog-rants be completely precise and open to absolutely no mis-interpretation whatsoever is a great deal of effort. I guess it depends what you blog about.