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How Valentine’s Day Fever Grips Bloggers From Around The World Every Year?

By the end of the January and the start of the February, most of the offline world is deeply immersed in red roses. Nearly all popular shopping destinations are decked with bright red decorations. Every stationery shop has at least one stand of red and white cards. Even balloon hawkers seem to have an excess of red and white balloons. However, if you are generally adverse to this color, then the sudden bombardment of all things red can be horribly tiresome.
If you are hoping to get away from the Valentines Day fever and contemplating refuge in the online world. Most websites, especially the ones offering free greeting cards, have special Valentines Day templates designed and put in the place to lure visitors in to sending the latest collection of e-cards to their “loved” ones.

Dedicated Blogs:

When it comes to the blogs, there is only a handful dedicated to Valentines Day. Most of them contain posts about possible Valentines Day gift ideas. Unfortunately, blogs such as “My Valentines Blog” remain extremely dormant the rest of the year and apart from a few gift related posts, there isn’t much to attract visitors regularly.

Celebrity Blogs:

Most celebrity blogs offer at least one post on how a certain celebrity spent their Valentines Day. Celebrity- obsessed users are prone to flock towards these websites for a myriad of videos and images of their favorite celebrity celebrating Valentines Day.
Valentines Day makes an appearance on few official blogs as well. A through search reveals that there is the odd post pertaining to Valentines Day. The nature of the post depends on the website in question.
The blogs of gift-related websites usually impart information about budget-friendly gift ideas. Fashion blogs have the latest on Valentines Day hairstyle and apparel. Websites dedicated to cooking recipes have posts about the special foods you can prepare on this day.

Personal Blogs:

The lack of dedicated Valentines Day blog does not mean that this day has absolutely no impact on bloggers worldwide. While a majority of bloggers don’t create separate blogs to mark the occasion, they tend to write some thing about it on their own blogs. There are a few scattered posts on personal blogs, wishing people a Happy Valentines Day or asking readers how they spent their Valentines Day.
There are yet other posts in which bloggers discus their own Valentines Day in great deal, especially the costs and recipients of their gifts. Some bloggers ramble on about the power of love, while others relate their elaborate plans for the Day and how each of them went awry.

Going Red:

A blog template says not only a lot about the blogger, but quite a bit about the template designer as well. Consequently, bloggers put a lot of effort in choosing or designing the right template for their blogs. Most bloggers usually change it after a certain period of time. Changing a template after a month or two doesn’t make much sense, however this is exactly what most bloggers do when Valentines Day approaches.
Admittedly, a wide selection of such templates is available on websites such as “Blog Skins” & “My Space”. Templates may range from simple to downright garish.
Predictably, teddy bears, hearts and roses feature in almost all of them. However, not all templates have red and white color scheme. Some of them are actually pink and red are excessively mushy.
However, if you are a blogger and want to proclaim to the world that you are against Valentines Day, then an array of graphics and stickers are available on many different websites that can easily be displayed on your blog. These provide an added advantage so that you don’t have to change you template every year.
There are of course, more interesting and enlightening posts on certain blogs which discuss the insignificance of Valentines Day and look at the issue from different angles. Some of these posts discuss the true meaning of love which is dependent on “Days”. Others go beyond that, and quote incredulous stories from newspapers which contain shocking statistics.
For instance, a kiwi English instructor residing in Japan reported on his blog that the year 2005 witnessed 53 billions yen being spent on chocolates during the Valentines Day season. The same blog went on to report how certain workplace in Japan actually instructed their male employees to refrain from giving chocolates to their female co-workers, as this puts the latter under immense pressure to give something equally expensive in return. Another blog reported that about eight million Americans send themselves gifts to save face on Valentines Day.
If one analysis the “redness” of the blogosphere, one thing is apparent-bloggers posting about Valentines Day sound more unhappy than happy. A majority of posts are about plans gone wrong, financial burdens increasing, people sending gifts to themselves, etc.
The question remains that who is really happy at the end of the day? The answer to this question is simple- the people who benefit most from this Day are the happiest. These usually include those people who have something to sell online. Website blogs are a proof of this - every other post is meant to be selling you something from chocolates and flowers to gift and hairstyles. Each post conveys the same message that their gift offering is the best thing you can buy for your loved one. These posts inadvertently promote the idea that the more you spend, the happier the receiver will be. The sad reality is, the recipient may not like the gift and you might end up with a financial burden.