Jul 01 2006

To Blog or not to blog

Posted by Steve @ 2:59 amTags:

We had company over tonight. At some point, the conversation came ’round to blogging. My friend Peter did not know what would motivate someone to want to blog away information about their life. “To what end result would someone do this?” What motivates someone to want to submit themselves to the pressures of providing content about their most intimate thoughts and life’e events?

I couldn’t answer his questions to his satisfaction. The best I could come up with was to express oneself. To whom and why? I dunno.

Why do YOU blog? What motivates you to read someone else’s thoughts?

8 Responses to “To Blog or not to blog”

  1. Jody says:
    July 1st, 2006 at 9:24 pm

    It allows the narcissism out that no one likes to admit to, although I like the technical, behind-the-scenes, too.

  2. mireille sampson says:
    July 2nd, 2006 at 2:13 pm

    We read because we’re a bunch of nosey buggers, just like the old lady who’s always peeking out through the curtains; we write to shock the old lady sticking her nose out of the curtainsicon_wink

  3. Jeanette Jobson says:
    July 2nd, 2006 at 10:39 pm

    Why? Because I can.

    Expression, art, life, angst, joy, history, so many reasons. Its the electronic version of part of my legacy.

  4. Tina Chaulk says:
    July 5th, 2006 at 1:20 pm

    Mireille said it best. I love that! Also, my own blogging is a wee bit of shameless self-promotion of my book.

  5. Craig Welsh says:
    July 5th, 2006 at 3:27 pm

    Yes, there is a narcissism in it for me. I’m used to having my opinions published as I was a newspaper reporter for many years. However, it’s also a release for me. If I couldn’t write and bitch about things that pissed me off or interested me then I would likely explode. That or my wife would kill me as I would being venting to her all the time.

    Besides, I also consider it writing practice. If you don’t write something every day, the skills go away on you…

  6. rekounas says:
    July 10th, 2006 at 8:48 am

    I keep lots to myself. If I let loose, people would think I was crazy or just sick icon_biggrin

  7. Steve says:
    July 10th, 2006 at 10:02 am

    Those of us who know you already know that… Let loose, man!! yahoo5

  8. rekounas says:
    July 10th, 2006 at 11:42 am

    Michelle is my censor. If I say anything too naughty, I get an earful icon_sad

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