Thursday, August 18, 2011

Facebook envy wears off? Try \ after exhaustive perfect life of the blogosphere's numerous romantic duets

Congratulations to this: You 're young, you' re attractive, and you 're in a relationship. Your apartment looks like a Vogue shoot interiors and \ your wardrobe 's bursting its hinges with vintage goodies. Not content to stroke his hand over dining tables or to add your lewdness on friends, family, innocent bystanders or other public transport users, you come to the conclusion - there 's in the 21 Century and all - you should blog about it. Welcome to the world of the couple's bloggers.

At the peak of this mountain is a virtual Mormon couple from Washington, DC, Naomi and Josh Davis, who set up her blog Rock Star Diaries shortly after their wedding in 2007. You now have numerous sponsorship deals and a passionate global following - a picture of your baby 's eyelashes (yes, it' s that intimate) attracts more than 150 comments, comments frequently run daily in the thousands. Your online life are primary colored blurs the Hipstamatic capture perfection - Baby Eleanor never seems to cry, Kingsley would not be your dog 't out of place Crufts and doe-eyed, immaculately dressed Naomi and Josh are perpetually happy. It 's saccharine sweet and utterly addictive - like reality TV, but with cupcakes.

While Rockstar Diaries in a particular category by some bloggers (consisting of cool, young, American Mormons and Christians blogging about idyllic man-and woman-ups) the format drop itself is increasingly translated into the UK blogosphere - if less, well yes, gross. From street fashionista duo What Katie in London Gourmet (now living in Hong Kong) Tom Eats Jen Cook, blogging duo are carving out a new form of real-life, online lifestyle envy wore.

Sally is one half of the Louder Than Silence, the blog she and her boyfriend Ross Holden in August last year chronicle of her life in London together. They currently get around 1,000 hits per day and have just fronted a campaign for online shoe shop from the back of it, Bertie.

You say:? "We went to see the Strokes play a secret gig in the last year and had such a great night, we thought 'Wouldn' t it great to have a place to share this '- a blog that shows London through the eyes of a girl and a boy. "

Granted, Sally Ross and a heads-up in the trend stakes - she works in fashion PR and he 'sa graphic designer - this can be a small consolation for those whose average weekly night is more local Sainsbury \ Here' s a Shoreditch . But she insists, 't directed or supported by, more of a creative outlet to document their lives, as they are: "I don' her blog isn \ t think we portray our lives as perfect by all means, if you. To read the text that accompanies the images they often take the mick or tell a funny anecdote from the day. "

But ultimately the question must be asked: what happens if they break? "We wouldn 't keep the blog," says Sally. "But I can 'see t that happens to be honest. We wouldn' t the blog together, if we weren 't quite seriously, they think the term was a long-term project to be started. "It 'sa project that' s led them into the online lives of the other pair of bloggers - so what 's the appeal? Pair is blogging the next level of online over-share, or a more meaningful insight into other relationships, no matter how sugar-coated could be?

"It 's just nice to get a feel for people \ get' s lives and their relationships in various cities around the world - what they eat and what they wear and where to go," says Sally. "We 're perfectly normal 25-year-old, who lives in London, to enjoy with our own little piece of the Internet together."

Jenny Stevens

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