Blogging and Dinner Host

Before reading the article by Andrew Sullivan I had never actually thought of comparing blogging to anything that was non-literary such as a dinner party. After reading this article I do understand why he can make such an argument. He backs it up well. I think that blogging is very much similar to hosting a dinner party because in both you have an audience (the readers of a blog and the guests at the party). It is your job as either the blogger or the host to entertain them and keep them hooked possibly to keep coming back to you or at least stay until the end.

It is basically up to the blogger or the dinner host to ensure that everyone is having a good time but there are not necessarily any real criteria that you have to meet for either. There is no set rubric on how to write a blog or how to host a dinner party. It is really just the experience that matters. It also depends on your guests or audience. Unless you bring people only from a certain group in your life and only share one significant bond with them it is easy to say that the readers and the guests are a bunch of different people who want to feel like they didn’t waste their time by investing it in you.

As mentioned by Andrew Sullivan, he talks about how bloggers tend to give themselves fully to whoever may come across them. There is no way that you can monitor what others think of you or what they will say. Most likely you will find more critics than supporters. That can be similar to a dinner party. Even if they seem like they like everything and smile to your face that does not that they actually enjoyed themselves. For all you know they may just go home and all sit around talking about how lame your party was.

Bloggers and dinner hosts are also similar to each other because they both usually open up a topic that can lead to a big discussion with many different opinions. I think that is a source of entertainment in most cases especially when you are face to face with your audience. The blogger and dinner host both have to maintain a certain character during the blog or the party in order to keep up with their audience. If you start off a blog with one point and stray to a completely different one with no sense of connection with the two, the readers may stop reading because they are confused. Also, a host has to keep a certain persona, if the host starts out being clever and witty and by the end of the night becomes an emotional wreck for absolutely no reason people may not want to be at your party anymore.

Anyway, I think that it’s safe to say that the comparison between a dinner host and a blogger can be made with a lot to back it up and not a lot going against it except of course one involves food and the other involves a computer screen.

About Anita Chitnis

Hello everyone I am Anita. I am currently a sophomore at Rutgers. I am majoring in management (I am in the business school). I was born in north Jersey and basically moved all over New Jersey until middle school. I settled in Edison and have lived there ever since. Although I have lived in New Jersey my whole life I don’t see myself living here for the rest of my life. I don’t think I would move out of the country but definitely a few states away.

I originally despised Rutgers New Brunswick with a burning passion because my high school is only about fifteen minutes away and I assumed I would have to see the same people for the rest of my education. I wanted to go to Drexel but then I realized that Rutgers had a better business program and how big this place is so I decided that I would give it try. It was a lot cheaper and closer to home. (I was pretty sure I would get homesick the minute I stepped foot in my dorm…which I did). I still don’t know if I will use my degree to work in Corporate America right after I graduate but I am just going with the flow at the moment.

When I am not in class you will probably find me doing choreography for Zumba or at my job at a family owned diner in my home town. Last semester I became a Zumba instructor and I am very passionate about dance in general. I have been dancing since I was five and I think Zumba is a good way to incorporate fitness with dance. I work at the diner and have worked at other cafés because eventually I want to open some type of café or bistro, hence the business degree.

I enjoy standard things like spending way too much time on the computer watching vine videos and Netflix. I try to go out to be social and meet people as much as I can but it’s weather like what we are experiencing now that supports my decision to stay indoors most of the time. I am not girly in any way other than maybe the fact that I dance. My friends sometimes tease me that I was meant to be a guy because of how I don’t follow any of the stereotypes girls usually follow.

As someone else mentioned, I didn’t know that this was a blogging class and when I walked into class on Wednesday I was a bit confused. However, I am kind of glad that this is a different kind of class. I always wanted to learn more about blogs especially since everyone around me is always tumbling and blogging on their own. I am excited because this will be an interesting experience for me. I only had really taken creative writing because I had heard that it was easy but since this class seems interesting I don’t mind doing the work, at least I will learn something worthwhile here.