Saturday, May 29, 2010

Why Blog? - The purpose of Blogging


What is a blog? What's the purpose of a blog? Why would anyone blog when they could just write their personal experiences in a diary, notebook or journal?

It's come to mind on how I've been in this blogging world for 6 years. There are many reasons and purpose of nature as to why one would blog. One is they take it as a personal shared online journal, others take it for educational purposes to provide information to its readers, there are those who do it for business and certain people opens a blog merely for media/news/entertainment.

Bottom line to all this is, there's no specific grounds or rules that makes the ''perfect'' blog. The one thing about it is being able to engage and share. The only thing you can be sure of is it's written by a 'someone' - just like you and I. And when it comes to personal publishing, it's not the amount of people who visit that's important.

To me, a blog is simply your web log - an open alternative to the real diary which you usually keep locked in your desk drawer. You keep real diary locked because you don't want people to read it and be able to disagree with you in public over its content. Truth be told, I still do have my own diary but it's merely because I love writing and as time passes by, it's something for me to go through the pages of my life. Writing in a diary is no where similar to typing and that's just one aspect to it.

Then again, my opinion of how a blog should be defined - how it should function - is not the hard, fast rule for all bloggers. I believe more importantly, whether it's a blog or a diary or a little book that you write in, it's all about seeing how much you have grown and learned from your experiences. At the end of the day, that is the true beauty of a diary, your own personal and emotional growth, and pretty much what makes you comfortable.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

nice post tks!