Why Blog ?

I used to question myself, why do people blog and now I am writing this “blog” to answer the same. I can organize my thoughts around four dimensions. When (why), who, what and for whom do people blog.

I was almost confident that I will never get time to blog, but then I deleted some of the computer games on my PC, I realized that I wasn’t that busy at all. So, does that mean people who blog have plenty of time, the answer may be “yes”. However, the corollary is not true; people who have plenty of time do not necessarily blog. (Assumption: The term ‘people’ as used here consist of those individuals that have easy access to internet) That means the underlying reason is not the availability of ‘time’. To get to the right answer I asked myself the same question differently “What made me write all this”, the answer is “I wanted people to know that I have given sufficient thoughts to explain the origin of a global phenomenon called ‘blogging’ ”. Now that’s the answer to my question “people blog because they want to tell/share their views/opinions on variety of subjects/events that happen in their personal/social/corporate life”.

Now does this answers my next question “who”. Of course, people who want to tell/share their individual views to/with others. Does that mean that all those people who are not blogging doesn’t have any opinions/views about anything? Also, Is blogging the only way(channel) to share your views/opinions with others, wasn’t this happening before? Actually, whenever people chat they do the same, they share their views/opinions with others. This question leads me to find another more appropriate answer to “Who” question. The answer more appropriately can be written as “People who want to share their views/opinions/thoughts with the audience that is far away from them, blog”. Still something is missing in the answer? One can still email/call/chat online to do all that? So I will have to refine my answer a little bit. “People who want to share their views/opinions/thoughts with the audience that is far away from them but with the convenience, blog.” No, the answer is not 100% correct, email is still the viable option. Now I have to give my answer a finishing touch. It could be stated as “People who want to share their views/opinions/thoughts with the audience that is either known (but is far away from them) or unknown (so they have to publish their thoughts somewhere, no one would like to make their inbox public!) and with all the convenience to everyone, blog.”

Though partly, I have defined the remaining two dimensions ‘what’ and ‘whom’. But these two cannot be answered separately as they link with each other. Clearly because one never writes on the things happening on one’s personal front for the unknown audience. So, when one write something related to your life (what) like daily activities etc. one writes it for ones friends (Whom). And when one write on any other topic/subject that is a social/cultural/political (simply global) phenomenon that one writes it for everybody. So this answers my fundamental questions about “blogging” and I can just tell you that I no longer consider “blogging” as non-productive investment of time. However, I am yet to write on the commercial aspects of blogging and another sequel of this blog may release soon.

I do not wanted my first blog to be very lengthy because I too do not like reading lengthy blogs, after all no one has that much of time anyway.