Brian, my husband, is much more tech savy than I am. I tend to fumble my way through the internet with the enthusiasm of a five year old whereas Brian spends his evenings building his “super computer” and gaming.
Brian knows I have been blogging for a while now. I kept a blog over on Diaryland for years until we were engaged and then I let it fall by the wayside (it was one part scathing social commentary and one part “this is what I did today”). When I started blogging again last May, he did get a bit paranoid (especially after he realized I wrote something about his boxers) but he never really brought it up again. And I don’t think he’s looked at my blog since then.
Recently, the topic has come up again. He thinks blogging is stupid. He has the attitude that he spends enough time hearing about other people’s opinions to begin with so why should he go out of his way to read those opinion as well. He also wonders what he would blog about (apparently, he believes that no one would be interested in his life as a carpenter).
I told him it was a very good thing that I didn’t write soley for him to read.
I tried to explain to him the idea of community. The concept of being in conversation with other people who may not live where we live. I told him about the ability to throw an idea out into the world and see what comes of it.
All of it left me wondering: Why do people start blogs anyway? I started writing because of my love for the written word. But why does everyone else start? I’m fairly certain that not all bloggers out there are posting because they have a physical need to write.
What I really want to know is this: Why did you decide that starting a blog was a good idea? Is it something to fill the hours or is it something you are passionate about?
And if anyone has a better explaination of blogging, please let me know. Brian is still waiting.
Sandra said...
1Why did I start blogging? To let family keep up with our lives without constatly calling and sending pictures…its just easier. Than it became about updating friends and photography boards that I am on…now its just an obsession. Ive also discovered that I canget my blog printed into a book! How cool is that?!
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CeserarkBiark said...
2thank you, bro
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