1 post tagged “why blog”

QotD:

Why do you blog?
Submitted by littleduckling.

I started blogging as a way to have a diary without running the risk that my parents may find it, rummaging through my drawers. I started blogging since (I think) 1998 because I felt that online, my identity and my journal was less at risk of being exposed. You could always use pseudonyms, though I didn't. I didn't because I didn't think my parents would be web savvy enough then to know about blogs and how to search for one.

Now, I don't use a pseudonym either because I think I'm comfortable enough with my thoughts to not mind my parents knowing what I'm thinking. My thoughts are part of me, and I've come to accept them.

Now, I also blog because I have opinions that I don't think people will have the time to sit down with me to listen to. Everybody's so busy with the Internet these days. I think it's sad that the Internet has eaten up our face-to-face interaction time. When was the last time you talked about anything really really deep with friends in person? But it's all right. The way I figure, friends can still get to know how I've grown as a person online when they are free. And I can share my thoughts when I am free. We can play catch up this way, even though our free times don't coincide and we hardly hang out anymore.

I still don't blog my deepest darkest secrets online, of course. Those, I leave in the recesses of my mind.