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Why do people blog?

Friday, 13 January, 2006 at 3:22 pm | In Reflections | 2 Comments

One of my friend asked me this question yesterday whilst drinking. It seems to be a phenomenon with thousands of journals and blogs popping up everyday. Some blog because they wish to be famous or popular. Some blog because they feel strongly about a particular issue, some blog because they love writing etc… I mean these were the possibilities we contemplated upon in our discussions. And she asked “So, do you blog too?”

“Erm, no not really” was my response since the last thing I needed was for her to probe about what my blog address is.

I started a journal because I had wanted an avenue to vent my frustrations about life, to talk about my feelings, to talk about things that I would not share with my friends normally. And somehow, through this journal, I seek escape from realities of life. Yet this blog is public and probably many more people would come to know of the very things that I keep private from my friends and I cannot help but think about the contradiction.

The only difference would be the fact that here – I am Desolance.

And somehow I have found someone writing and sharing with me as I blog. And somehow, the rules of engagement have changed… the journey is no longer lonely because others whom feel the same way, or have experienced the same ordeals about life share their thoughts here in this virtual world. And another reason is born…

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[...] My view is that many blogs are vanity publishing, by people feeling cut off from remote family, friends and niche interest groups, and for various other social reasons such as personalizing the internet, keeping in with their peers, a big area to be further explored by me sure – “why people blog?”, here a couple of random links – personal view, academic view. Whatever the reason one could call blogs ‘viewpoints, ideas, journals’ in the public domain. The equivalent of giving your opinion at a generic ’speakers corner’ for anyone and everyone who is passing to hear. So why can’t people use those opinions to make money (or academics to cite or use for research for their ‘original’ papers)?. Sure they can for the moment, but like any commercial layer imposed on something that is organic and democratised, it will be alterred, corrupted, as the electron microscope inherently changes and even destroys the thing it is looking. But there is the good side to the ‘buzz capturers’ Hewlett-Packard, the computer and technology company, lately has picked up from cyberspace that customers really hate leaving their computers at shops for repairs; far better, the company learned, is having technicians repair the machines in homes. “What that makes us do is that when we think about investing more in that area, we say, yes, it’s positive to do that,” said Rickey Ono, business strategy manager for HP. “We drill into the individual comments and it helps to justify our expenditure on in-home repair.” [...]

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