I Blog therefore I am
Blog - "read, write or edit a shared on-line journal"...this is how the blog is defined on the Net.
Blogs have become one of the most popular ways of sharing information, 'random thoughts', anything and everything with a much larger audience. They have become a way of expression, hereto, restricted to an old diary; most times, unread and unappreciated, 'un-commented' by any third person.
Today, when i write, i want to be read. Those of us who depended on others' approval for our writings to be published are no longer bound by these chains. All professional or amateur writers now can at the click of a mouse 'publish' content online. Now the wait is not for approval or publishing but that, it would be read, by family, friends, strangers, anybody, who is interested in the same things that i am.
The need to be heard, the need to share, the need to know that somebody 'out there' is reading what i write....i think these are some of the factors that are driving most writers as well as non-writers to blog.
I think in recent times, having a blog has almost become synonymous to having a phone number or an email id. It seems to offer me an identity that i must have, something that is not only accepted but expected in some sort of unidentifiable way!! I blog, therefore i am.
Blogs have become one of the most popular ways of sharing information, 'random thoughts', anything and everything with a much larger audience. They have become a way of expression, hereto, restricted to an old diary; most times, unread and unappreciated, 'un-commented' by any third person.
Today, when i write, i want to be read. Those of us who depended on others' approval for our writings to be published are no longer bound by these chains. All professional or amateur writers now can at the click of a mouse 'publish' content online. Now the wait is not for approval or publishing but that, it would be read, by family, friends, strangers, anybody, who is interested in the same things that i am.
The need to be heard, the need to share, the need to know that somebody 'out there' is reading what i write....i think these are some of the factors that are driving most writers as well as non-writers to blog.
I think in recent times, having a blog has almost become synonymous to having a phone number or an email id. It seems to offer me an identity that i must have, something that is not only accepted but expected in some sort of unidentifiable way!! I blog, therefore i am.
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