Blogging was looked down upon, ages ago, as something that only lonely, emotional, or self centered people did. I remember back during my school years, when Blogging first came about and LiveJournal was all the rage, most people used it as a way of tracking stuff day to day, with little interesting to say, but more recently it's become a medium that most people have some connection to, be it writing or reading.
I myself write in my blog to get across emotions, or thoughts, that I have that are too complex to keep in my head. Writing helps me overcome these and, while it might not be best to broadcast these to the public, I am not ashamed of how i've thought or felt and, in the end, it may well better my writing ability, which is the second reason I blog.
I blog because, more often then not, I don't have a lot of time, or motivation, to be creative, so I use it to keep my writing on track; as a way to prove to myself that I still can, and I like to think this helps.
However more recently there has been a surge in, what I call, convenience blogging, using Facebook Status', Tweeting, or posting a quick Tumblr article. It's these blogs which I am being drawn into. They take no time and you can simply post a thought, or feeling, without having to write a large essay such as I am now. However I feel we're losing out on some of the more interesting blogs. While nearly every celebrate, or so it seems, now Tweets about their antics, surely a more detailed explanation, a full blog, would be prefered by their truer fans. Surely it would be better then the articles and gossip we read in all the 'Chat' and 'People' magazines. While some people still write articles while Tweeting, Neil Gaiman for instance, mainy provide a simple one sentence update about their lives.
I think with a happy medium we could blog, tweet, and update our facebooks, bringing us truly into the shared experience of social networking and the internet. All of which, I think, is a positive and horizon broadening thing.
