I hate long blog posts.  Even though I was born long before the day of social media, I am certainly affected by the microwave generation.  What do I mean?  We can put instant noodles in the microwave that will be ready in thirty seconds and still say hurry up.  I admit it.  I am impatient.  And this mindset certainly bleeds into my taste for blogs.  If I see an entire page of text, I am likely to go right past it.  If it’s worth being said, it can probably be summed up in about two hundred-fifty words. 

There are some notable exceptions.  Sometimes, the subject matter must be more adequately developed.  But most of the time, a writer sits down without doing any prep work.  No thought put into writing.  Work it all out on the page or screen and subject the reader to the process.  When I buy a car, I don’t want to have to walk along the assembly line.  I just want the finished product.  If I am writing a short story or a work of prose, that is a totally different story, but with a blog post, I, as the consumer, want something pithy and well conceived so it gives me one kernel of thought provoking goodness.  I don’t really need to go through all of the author’s mental wanderings.  That’s why I hate long blog posts.