[koide]

Not necessarily miserable, they might be just good marketers creating an online audience for themselves to advance their careers or feed their egos.

Fun stories about fun lives (fictitious or real) are something people use for entertainment nowadays. You could call it "reality blogging."

[batista]

<b>Not necessarily miserable, they might be just good marketers creating an online audience for themselves to advance their careers or feed their egos.</b>

If someone needs "ego feeding" then he is miserable enough in my books...

[koide]

Then most people in the world are miserable in your books. Becoming egoless is a hard and long road that not even everyone pursues, let alone achieve.