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Should I embrace or avoid memes(pictures) when blogging?

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I write on a fairly low traffic blog. One thing I've been seeing some of around the internet are blog posts which use meme pictures(example picture. It seems like an interesting approach to me. I'm a programmer and write about technical topics. Sometimes topics are pretty dry and it's difficult to make them interesting. So, I recently decided to try out this style. I'm not for sure how much I like it. In some cases, it just makes bad writing less... bad. And in others, it can take a very dry and boring topic and make it hold my attention.

What is everyone's thoughts? What are the bad points to using memes (or other funny/not-diagram) pictures in writing about a topic?

Also, for reference, this is the blog post I wrote using this style(it's very technical)

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In addition to S.F.'s excellent answer, "Less is more." The post you linked to could have one of those meme photos, but not all three. Having said that, using one of the meme photos does liven it up a bit and make it less dry. So they are not a bad thing by definition, but they are easy to overdo.

Use them judiciously and when appropriate, not in every post.

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