Why Do We Have Blogs?
Ok, tackling the Why-Do-Peeps-Have-Blogs issue, I have a few comments. Cause I know of some people (in and out of school) who are bringing up the issue, and how everyone's destroying everyone else with a mere - dot blogspot dot com. You can't actually call blogs a 'private journal'; they are online, so they are communicative publications, nothing even close to private.
Hey, we have blogs because we want attention. Is that primitive enough? I like to get hooked onto a blog about someone else's life. It's like a storybook. Just that it never reaches an ending. We are all humans, we love to showcase ourselves, and also butt in into other people's affairs. Some of us just wants a piece of net space where you can actually see your accomplished entries, nothing else. Hey, most of us aren't xiaxues. We don't bother if this page looks nice and attractive so we get more readers. We don't care if the topics we talk about are meer happenings in our boring life, and not about hot political/teenage/sexual/scandalous issues that would attract a crowd. It's simply prosaic.
I put one up because it's easy to see what you write. You know, navigation? So I won't have to go through thousands of documents to look for a singular blogpost. Or had to scroll ages to find one singular post dated ages ago.
And also, it'll be interesting when a stranger gets to know another stranger through some crazy journals, huh? A person with probably no relations to you, happen to stumble on your blog, and was ridiculous enough to take time to read what you rant about day after day. And from there slowly get to know you, understand your life, your personality, equate your experiences and situations with their own, and regard you as a friend they never knew, even though he or she is probably a million miles away, has never communicated with you, and has absolutely nothing to do with you. Did I just made you notice how powerful blogging can be?
Cool huh? The idea of it? Blogging can really make the world a whole lot closer. That's if you are willing to go out there and read what others write. Of course you can argue that it also does the reverse, it brings people apart, allows people to voice insensitive comments about others, blah blah blah, but let's leave the minority.
I always worry about the day blogger.com collapses.... hey, seriously! Imagine the information wasted! Imagine how millions of accounts written by millions of people around the world go down the trash.
*scurries to make a back-up*