Whether it is a blog, an email, or even regular mail if it says DO NOT OPEN THIS then 87% will desregard the directions and unwrap the package. This action is made out of curiosity. Everyone gets curious about what is so secretive or bad about the information enclosed and why it states not to open it in big bold letters. Most of the time it is just junk or something wastely but the fact is everyone has curiosity.
Curiosity is not such a bad thing though. People such as crime scene investigators and FBI agents must be curious to find clues guiding them to their cases. Curiosity also helps individuals learn new things. Say for example a door says DO NOT OPEN but you open it anyway and there is a huge dog with rabies just waiting for it's lunch on the other side. So you close the door quickly and move on with your day. The next time you see a door that says DO NOT OPEN you think twice before you do so. In that case you learned from your mistakes which is very important in the world today.
Well the point of this blog was to see how many people would actually read or comment it showing that everyone has curiosity and that it is acceptable.
I have a few tips for you, since you really seem to be giving it your all now. First of all, since you only joined about 5 days ago, you're not eligible for the current scholarship (you had to have been on the site by April 15th for that).
Secondly, don't post quite so much. A few posts a day is good, but not if they're all posted so close to one another. People tend not to read them if they are. Which is why most of your blogs go ignored.
Thirdly, put some real thought into your blogs. You seem to have a lot of great ideas, but don't take much time to develop them. For instance, this blog, you talk about how people don't listen to directions, such as your title, because of curiosity. You say it's not such a bad thing, and give one example. You could expand it, though, to make it more powerful. Talk about specific instances where curiosity helped (certainly there's a few news articles about it), or about instances where curiosity killed the cat, so to speak. You could talk about the specific advantages to an ordinary person for being curious... learning about new people and being open-minded, for instance. You could expand so much on this topic, rather than just focusing on one small idea that most of us will never experience.
Finally, I don't know if you're doing this yet or not, but go comment on other people's blogs, and attach a link to your blogs (either a specific one, or just the listing of your blogs) to your comments. That encourages people to seek out your opinions if they like yours (or don't like yours). It might also give you some ideas for new blogs (though don't make a blog in response to another... it's poor netiquette).
~C
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