Why people blog??
This was the question one of my friend asked me day before yesterday. Interesting question it was. So I thought let’s have a thought at it.
I read it somewhere the word “blog” came from “web log”. So it may be online discussion, commentary or news on a particular subject also as more personal online diaries.
Initially it would have been started by some politicians who wants to share there views on particular topic and there will be followers of them who always wanted to know what their leader have to say. Also would have been from scientists may they wanted to have online discussion which anyone can give their inputs on.
Now let’s come to personal area where actually this friend of mine was more concerned, and also this is my current blog status also … I have seen people maintaining their daily lives and many personal views or anything they want to share …. also to show their creativity or enhance it.
Its like having your say on some topic and make people read it, its is similar to writing an article in newspaper with little less reader base lets say your friends, and having there say on it. Do articles or views should be fancy enough to be in newspapers?? What if u want to share something with your friends? And at the same you have no problems in making it public.
Some of his counter arguments were:
“kuch bhi utha k likh do to ek blog ban jaata hai” (whatever u write it becomes a blog)
“aaj kya kiya.... kal ka din kaise gaya ... person kaun mila tha... narson kya khaya tha sab kuch blog me”
(what u did today… what about yesterday …. Who met you …what u ate)
Like I said politics to have followers ….. also what I feel is even your friends are also your followers, they are always interested in your things, what you do daily …. they want to listen it and they always have some opinion on it. So why not provide them the appetite and have a chat on daily life. Take their comments ….. and best part is u can interact with all irrespective of your location.
Some more arguments:
“people write for the sake of writing... just for the sake of showoff”
“time pass can happen in private, why do you need a public webpage”
“I mean to say... people write blogs for people to read on them”
Hmm so concern here was people write it so that someone can read on it and terming it as a show of ……
Obviously isn’t it the same what people are doing in all those social sites like Orkut, Facebook, Hi5 …. This is what you do when u put a personal status message on your messenger. I remember him putting status message like ………
“All of my friends left me. they went for the party and they are enjoying ….. somewhere” something like that ….
Now I wanted to ask ….. why did he put this status message in his messenger there are 100s of his friends who can read it ,when on the contrary he was talking of only those few of his friends? Isn’t it is a show off for rest of members in his messenger list? He can also tell them privately …why do he need public way to tell them, cant he can call them and tell?
Is it a show off or a call of sympathy from all?
Whatever it is, everyone of us wants tell our views anytime and luckily there are multiple mediums available with us now.
Be it messenger, orkuttin blogging … e mails etc etc.
Why do people blog?
Why do people write books?
Why do people make movies?
Why do people paint?
Why do people have anything to say in the first place?
And what makes them think anybody is listening to them or not?
Does it matter when anyone is listening to you or not?
This was the question one of my friend asked me day before yesterday. Interesting question it was. So I thought let’s have a thought at it.
I read it somewhere the word “blog” came from “web log”. So it may be online discussion, commentary or news on a particular subject also as more personal online diaries.
Initially it would have been started by some politicians who wants to share there views on particular topic and there will be followers of them who always wanted to know what their leader have to say. Also would have been from scientists may they wanted to have online discussion which anyone can give their inputs on.
Now let’s come to personal area where actually this friend of mine was more concerned, and also this is my current blog status also … I have seen people maintaining their daily lives and many personal views or anything they want to share …. also to show their creativity or enhance it.
Its like having your say on some topic and make people read it, its is similar to writing an article in newspaper with little less reader base lets say your friends, and having there say on it. Do articles or views should be fancy enough to be in newspapers?? What if u want to share something with your friends? And at the same you have no problems in making it public.
Some of his counter arguments were:
“kuch bhi utha k likh do to ek blog ban jaata hai” (whatever u write it becomes a blog)
“aaj kya kiya.... kal ka din kaise gaya ... person kaun mila tha... narson kya khaya tha sab kuch blog me”
(what u did today… what about yesterday …. Who met you …what u ate)
Like I said politics to have followers ….. also what I feel is even your friends are also your followers, they are always interested in your things, what you do daily …. they want to listen it and they always have some opinion on it. So why not provide them the appetite and have a chat on daily life. Take their comments ….. and best part is u can interact with all irrespective of your location.
Some more arguments:
“people write for the sake of writing... just for the sake of showoff”
“time pass can happen in private, why do you need a public webpage”
“I mean to say... people write blogs for people to read on them”
Hmm so concern here was people write it so that someone can read on it and terming it as a show of ……
Obviously isn’t it the same what people are doing in all those social sites like Orkut, Facebook, Hi5 …. This is what you do when u put a personal status message on your messenger. I remember him putting status message like ………
“All of my friends left me. they went for the party and they are enjoying ….. somewhere” something like that ….
Now I wanted to ask ….. why did he put this status message in his messenger there are 100s of his friends who can read it ,when on the contrary he was talking of only those few of his friends? Isn’t it is a show off for rest of members in his messenger list? He can also tell them privately …why do he need public way to tell them, cant he can call them and tell?
Is it a show off or a call of sympathy from all?
Whatever it is, everyone of us wants tell our views anytime and luckily there are multiple mediums available with us now.
Be it messenger, orkuttin blogging … e mails etc etc.
Why do people blog?
Why do people write books?
Why do people make movies?
Why do people paint?
Why do people have anything to say in the first place?
And what makes them think anybody is listening to them or not?
Does it matter when anyone is listening to you or not?
2 comments:
This is the topic which can go far.....however why you started writing the blogs.....which out if the reasons mentioned here were so tempting for you :-)
i alwayz want to learn writing skills yaar. this is thaks to a friend which triggered this
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