I may be a little obsessed with reading blogs lately. I read some 30 blogs everyday. Not all of them post something new everyday but I like to read what’s new when something is posted. I’ve commented before that I live vicariously through other blogs because I have no life. It seems like some have a much more interesting life then myself.

I find other blogs, as I’m sure others do as well, by clicking on the links the others post on their blogs. I do this often to see what they find interesting. If I enjoy their blog and they have a link to another blog they find interesting, I might find it interesting as well. That is how I’ve created the list of blogs I enjoy reading. Some are boing and some are interesting. The ones I find most interesting are the ones that write about themselves and what’s going on in their lives. I do read the political ones as well but I don’t find them as interesting. Any blogs that are topic specific I stay away from….blogs just about food or blogs just about broadway shows, etc.

So I’m clicking on random links on someone’s blog and run across another blog that I start reading. I spend some time reading the posts on the main page and then read the “about me” part. Then go to the archives and read a few posts there. The more I read this blog the more I think it’s completely made up. I can’t believe that this person has been all the places they talk about, know all the people they say they know, and do all the things they say they do. I should be clear here and say I’m not suggesting that this blog is fictitious, it just reads that way to me.

Anyway, reading so much of this blog and feeling the way I did after reading it, I began to wonder if there are blogs out there that are completely made up. Is there such a thing? I recently heard about a fake website created simply to promote the new movie “Godsend”. I wonder if people create fake blogs. Why would you do that? Would you need to create a completely different life for yourself because yours is so pathetic? I know I don’t have a life but I wouldn’t even think of making things up so that my blog would be popular. I just don’t get it.

The point of this post is not to accuse anyone of creating stories to be a more popular blogger, it is to ponder the question and wonder out loud about the possibility of fake blogs. I simply wonder if there are such things.