How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger

I have Google set up as my home page on my computer. I also have it set up to show customized content based on my gmail login (which I never use). The following headline popped up today in the "How to of the day" module:

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger

From the article:

Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you've been reading. Don't put anyone through that.

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If attention and validation are what you're looking for, know that you will get neither from blogging. As above, very few people will ever know that your blog (or you, by proxy) exists.

If only this article had been published last year, I might have been persuaded to stand on the sidelines of the blogosphere. Anyway, thank you for reading my blog and acknowledging that I do, in fact, exist.