What makes people Want to blog and What makes people blog ?
Are these two the same question, do they have the same answer ?
Though I was exposed to the concept of blogging almost a decade ago, I never appreciated the concept of someone's personal ramblings being put on the internet - what is the point in putting something 'out there' which nobody else would read or gain anything out from ! Of late, I have changed my idea because some of the most arbitary topics that I had 'googled' resulted in some blogs which were more useful than web pages from the 'authorities' of the topic - be it travel, music or whatever.
Before posting this, I infact googled to find out why people blog? It resulted in a variety of results, starting from 'People blog because they are f*ked up' to 'People blog because they consider it as a channel for expressing themselves'.
My justification for blogging is two fold. One, to publish something which I have experienced in life and guess would be useful for the internet fraternity - if at all some search engine points to here. Two, to put 'out there' some of the unique experiences that I have come across and some of the learnings from it. I intend to use it to reflect back on my past, to understand who I am and understand life.
Now the second question - What makes people blog? While many like me want to blog, I guess only few of them actually blog. A quick googling again threw up results ranging from 'The urge to express' to 'Jobless and lots of time at hand'.
Honestly, I am doing this now for reasons stated latter. But I hope I would be able to blog as frequently as possible, or as frequently as required.
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