Sex and the City and the Stereotyped Blogger

We are all different and special. Pay $300 for any blog conference pass and you’ll learn this. Pay $300 multiple times and you’ll realize that you can make a lot of money as a speaker at blogging conferences telling people they are different and special.

But let’s face it: there are some general types of blogging STYLES.

In a moment of insomniatic inspiration, I realized that each of us – as a blogger –  mirrors one of the lovely ladies from Sex and the City.

Are You Blogger Carrie?

Blogger Carrie is a highly visual, highly creative blogger. The look and feel of her blog is of paramount importance – saying as much about her as her newest pair of Manolo Blahniks. She uses a Mac. An introspective sort, she uses her blog as a place to question her current life status and to encourage her readers to do the same, but also as a place to share the more quirky aspects of her life. Despite her best intentions, however, Carrie tends to find herself embroiled in bloggy drama with bloggers that are not a good fit with where she wants to take her blog.

Are You Blogger Charlotte?

Blogger Charlotte is everybody’s blogger next door. Her bloggy manners are impeccable; her taste, refined. She is completely baffled by technology and how blogging actually works, and yet, this blissful ignorance gives her a charming and endearing quality. She has an appreciation for savvy wit, beautiful lifestyle content and lush food photography. Charlotte cannot tolerate even one widget being misaligned on her blog, but since she does not know how to fix that sort of thing, she ends up paying someone a lot of money to do it for her. She is extremely sweet and generous with her social media time, being the first to retweet a post and share a kind word about someone. She wins any bloggy voting contest that she submits for. You wish you could hate her, but she’s just too lovely a person!

Are You Blogger Miranda?

Blogger Miranda is a blogger who lives and breathes by the written word. What surrounds the words is completely unimportant. She cares little for blog design or self promotion; rather, she uses her blog as a platform to encourage debate on controversial topics and life issues, or simply to celebrate the art of writing in its purest form. She refuses to write sponsored posts or accept advertising. She is whipsmart and sometimes stubborn. Her voice is bone-crushingly honest and sometimes cynical, but those in her inner circle have her unwavering support and loyalty.

Are You Blogger Samantha?

Blogger Samantha is the blogger who gets around. She knows everyone on Twitter. She has 1500 Facebook fans. They all seem to love and worship her. Samantha has been around the block and likes to share with her blogger friends exactly how to get things done. Whatever she sets her mind to, she dominates. But because she is so busy, Samantha has her hands in a lot of pots and has a hard time committing to one thing and sticking to it. As soon as she has conquered one aspect of blogging or social media, she moves on to the next big idea.

I’ll bet you see a little of yourself in one or more of the lovely ladies from the show. I’ll bet you also see many of your bloggy friends in the characters, too.

Which SATC woman best represents your blogging style?

Any resemblance these characters have to bloggers dead or living is entirely intentional.