Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on June 24th, 2007
This is a question that I asked myself after I have read a chapter from the bestselling philosphical book, Sophie’s World. It was stated there that Philosophers with great minds are curious in nature. It is through asking of questions that they acquire answers and gain knowledge. This has initiated critical thinking and led to questions like the true meaning of life, the chicken and the egg, true purpose of man here on earth, and why Trillanes won the elections.
Being one of those wannabe modern philosophers, I have come up with something worth pondering on. Something Plato or even Socrates haven’t thought of.
Why do You blog?
It is said that success is achieved by setting goals. This is true in many cases, however, in order for us to be able to prepare our set of goals, we must first know which direction we are heading. We can do this by knowing our reasons in what we are going to do. In our case, we should know our reasons for blogging.
People have different opinions and different interests, it is these factors that partly influence our decisions in life. Same goes to blogging. Not everyone engage into blogging just to express their thoughts or their feelings, there are people who see blogging as a different kind of opportunity.
To express oneself - If one were to define the meaning of blogging, one would say that blogging is a way for individuals to be able to express their feelings and thougts to an audience online. A lot of people in the blogosphere have this reason.
To be able to write - There are people who blog simply because they love to write. For them, blogging is the easiest way to promote their writing abilities and their articles to an audience. Some Journalism students even make use of blogging as a way to further improve their writing abilities.
To make friends - Blogging is one out of the many ways of meeting people and making friends online. This is done through networking of individual blogs and also through group blogs.
To earn money - Many people nowadays want to blog because of the fact that they can make money out of it. Some people make blogs solely for making money such as Adsense Blogs (Blogs that makes full use of Adsense) or some niche blogs that concentrate on their blog’s marketing strategy. Don’t think of this as a bad thing. Blogging really does earn bloggers money. It is only up to you if you want to grab the opportunity or not.
For professional use - There are some who make use of blogging for proffesional use. They can be in the form of a contact page, a portfolio page, or anything that can be used for personal use. Examples of individuals such as these are photographers, web designers, and even programmers. Also, there are some companies that are also looking into blogging as a way to establish a relationship with their customers like Blogger.com and Wordpress.org which has their own company blogs.
Just to try it out - And of course, there are some people who just want to try blogging out. People who fall under this category are those curious ones who want to know what blogging is and why it is so popular nowadays.
There are a lot of reasons why people tend to engage into blogging. These are just those common ones that other people have.
How about you, what are your reasons for blogging? Do you have any other reasons why you made your own blog? Leave a comment here if you want!
(Why is the artwork along with this post black and white? I deeply apologize. I still have tons of schoolworks that I need to finish before final exams. Please bear looking at the colorless image for a few more days. Still, she does look cute, right?)
August 1st, 2007 at 7:39 pm
i blog to xpress myself to avoid schizoprenia thank you.
^_^
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June 30th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
hmm.. may maiipapayo ka ba kuya tungkol sa mga bloggers na nagkakaron ng Writer’s Block ^_^ heheh. na napipilitang mag Hiatus-chuuvaness-mode.
June 26th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
hahahahahaha!
grabe naman.
dinibdib naman niya yung thought experiment na yun.
just think, nasa bar pa siya para lang magmuni-muni sa kanyang blogging career!
nyahaha!