https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 16:28:22 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355896 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:27:04 +0000 mediagirl 1355896@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes! I don't read enough blogs to get really into them, though. I feel like you have to be a big social media reader/user to "get" a lot of it. I prefer just going to <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/</a> for *useful* information. Haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355887 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:22:10 +0000 heartonastring 1355887@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mamimami: I'm pretty sure CPS doesn't take calls such as, "So-and-so might be abusing his/her children - I know because I read her blog!" very seriously. Furthermore, the cases I've seen aren't cases of people admitting to physical abuse, they betray evidence of emotional abuse. And while, yes, that's terrible and I wish those children didn't have to endure it, if you know anything about CPS, you know that their caseload is such that they really can't do much in terms of intervention except in the most egregious cases. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355818 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 06:55:06 +0000 GrapeCrush 1355818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes, but don't contribute. I more think it's crazy how much time people spend on them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355802 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:39:16 +0000 loveisstrange 1355802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I read GOMI sometimes, but don't contribute. I enjoy their YHL thread, although I love Sherry and John. </p> <p>I used to read one that talked about the YouTube beauty gurus, but then that young girl died of cancer and some of the things that were said were stomach turning and I stopped. </p> <p>I also used to read Perez Hilton in college, but stopped long ago. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355558 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:32:25 +0000 Ree723 1355558@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I occasionally read gomi but never post on it. As @cupquakewalk: said, they usually are saying things that I'm thinking anyway but would never say. I get uncomfortable when they are just blatantly mean, but when they're calling a spade a spade, I do sometimes find it a bit amusing. I don't think I could ever bring myself to post on a site like that though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355555 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:30:31 +0000 mamimami 1355555@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@heartonastring: but... If there is real concern about children as many posters say, it's better to just write about it on a forum instead of calling CPS? Wha?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355547 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:23:41 +0000 Anagram 1355547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Kemma: I don't entirely agree, but if I were a person that were really concerned about that, I probably wouldn't frequent a site like GOMI that undeniably creates traffic for those bloggers, which keeps the whole thing going. I don't even regularly read bloggers but from the few times I have, they generally strike me as normal (imperfect) people just like the rest of us.</p> <p>I'm not super new-agey but I do think on a basic level that devoting energy to negativity is just going to end up bringing myself down more. Again, whatever floats their boat to the people who want to spend their time there, it just isn't for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355536 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:18:36 +0000 Anagram 1355536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jedeve: You said what I was trying to say. That, exactly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355532 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:16:04 +0000 jedeve 1355532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There is one thread on GOMI I follow because I'm kind of fascinated by it. It's amazing how people snowball off each other. One person points out something annoying, the next thinks its terrible, the next criminal, the next psychotic. And so then the next minor greviance is viewed as a major transgression. I find it completely lacking reality and perspective and am amazed how obsessed people can become with bloggers. But I still read it because it's fascinating.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355525 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:14:16 +0000 mamimami 1355525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I look once in awhile out of curiosity but I always am struck by how people devote time, energy and their so-called wit to badmouth other people. What a total waste. Yuck. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355519 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:12:59 +0000 Kemma 1355519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: I think some of the concern is justified considering that these children have had no say in what is being shared about them with the general public. I guess I think the kids (and the wider families) are entitled to their dignity and anonymity?</p> <p> I do however think this is part of a wider issue in which this latest generation of children are the first to have so much of their lives shared beyond just their families and communities (and that applies to HB, Instagram, FB etc) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355509 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:10:45 +0000 Arden 1355509@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never post on them, but I check them I occasionally out of curiosity. I think they can be really inappropriate bullying sometimes, but other times they are just funny. It depends. </p> <p>Weirdly though, I wouldn't care AT ALL if they snarked about me. I'd freak if they said mean things about my family, but me? Nah. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355505 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:09:07 +0000 Crystal 1355505@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@beaker: I love that site too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355499 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:05:30 +0000 heartonastring 1355499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CupQuakeWalk: This! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355492 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:02:48 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1355492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not sure if Go Fug Yourself counts, since theyre making fun of celebrities... But I love it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355469 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:56:39 +0000 yoursilverlining 1355469@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CupQuakeWalk: :grin: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355461 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:53:21 +0000 betsyboop 1355461@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I browse a couple of sites on a regular basis but have never contributed </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355453 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:51:58 +0000 immabeetoo 1355453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CupQuakeWalk: bahhhhh that movie. :grin: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355450 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:50:44 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1355450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: this. I don't feel like the site I'm talking about (gomi) is very much negative (there is some of course) as it is obvious and blunt. I dono if you've seen this movie: </p> [attach=2389/14/mziykk.198x131.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355442 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:48:00 +0000 Silva 1355442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@heartonastring: great comment. There are some blogs that I read for the same reason I watch real housewives! Rolling my eyes, and even shouting my arm chair diagnosis to my poor husband. I think the clever folks in gomi can offer a deepening of the conversations started by superficial blog posts.</p> <p>I'm not into snarking on commenters on forums, because they aren't putting themselves out there as a source of entertainment (although I'm not the snark police, just speaking personally). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355441 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:47:49 +0000 MoonMoon 1355441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, television without pity, Gomi (though I'm a bigger fan of smug nom), and go fug yourself, I guess I'm a snarky person sometimes! I mostly like the smart analyses I find on them on TV, blogging, and celebrities respectively. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355430 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:43:45 +0000 yoursilverlining 1355430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. Sometimes it's nice to see other people actually saying out loud what you, and tons of other people, are thinking but are too "nice" to say. I see a lot of smart wit on GOMI; and a small percentage of nastiness/negativity. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355426 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:42:04 +0000 bisous 1355426@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. Went on GOMI a few times to see what it was all about but everything I read felt so negative...stuff that could go toxic a little too easily for me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355425 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:41:37 +0000 heartonastring 1355425@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: Not sure if you're talking about GOMI, but one of the biggest rules of GOMI is never to interfere with people's lives (e.g. No calling CPS, no reporting anything to employers/spouses), so if people were doing that they would be pretty much shunned by the rest of the GOMI community. That is not cool nor is it tolerated. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355423 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:41:08 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1355423@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not regularly but on occasion, yes. They're usually hilarious and they say a lot of what I think. But, I would never post because I don't say mean things that cross my mind. I try to muffle them ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355415 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:39:43 +0000 Boogs 1355415@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: &lt;&lt;And in the 2-3 times I browsed I noticed some off-the-rails posters who were googling WB users and finding them in real life to call their SOs or places of work, or kind of stalking blogger families and trying to find financial information. Just....creepy.&gt;&gt;</p> <p>Exactly why I stay away from the toxicity. People claim that stuff doesn't happen, but it does and it's so creepy. I couldn't imagine if someone did that here with people's kids. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355412 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:38:36 +0000 Pepper 1355412@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: I &lt;3 Dlisted! (Though I categorize that as celebrity gossip/news and less of a snark site.)</p> <p>I don't participate in blog snark sites... too much negative energy for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355411 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:38:09 +0000 Ra 1355411@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to read GOMI in hopes that I'd never be on it. Then, I was actually on it one time and it bugged me so much I stopped looking. I prefer not to know that I'm being made fun of :). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355400 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:33:46 +0000 Anagram 1355400@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've read one a few times when it was mentioned here (or on WB? can't remember) and quickly realized it's not for me. But it's kind of like Amanda Bynes, in that sometimes some kind of train wreck drama erupts that makes we want to read it, but usually it's not worth my energy.</p> <p>The first thing that stood out for me was that 99% of the posters were women snarking on 99% women bloggers and posters on sites like this--and the very-fake "concern for the children" BS that pops up when people are hating on every blogger who happens to be a mom. I browsed through the health blogs, the lifestyle blogs, the fashion blogs, the parent blogs...and every single blogger in any category who had children had a whole brigade of enraged posters on GOMI "concerned for the children". Oh and also "concern for the husband".</p> <p>Just reeks of the same old mommy wars sexist stuff I avoid in real life.</p> <p>And in the 2-3 times I browsed I noticed some off-the-rails posters who were googling WB users and finding them in real life to call their SOs or places of work, or kind of stalking blogger families and trying to find financial information. Just....creepy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-read-snark-sites#post-1355321 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:12:21 +0000 heartonastring 1355321@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a regular reader and sometimes contributor (on the members-only threads, not so much the snark threads) of GOMI. I don't really see it as being different than reading/commenting on Television Without Pity or any other sites dedicated to discussing media. Blogs are a form of media and are part of the public sphere.</p> <p>There's actually a great sense of community on GOMI and some incredibly insightful, astute, witty discourse depending on where you look. </p>