What is your motivation for blogging? What inspires you to write? What prompts you to blog on a certain subject? We all have different reasons for blogging that results to millions of different blogs with different voices.
This is part of the beauty of blogging. We can all blog and say whatever pleases and pisses us. It’s too diverse that everyday presents a different tone for the blogosphere.
Take this post from Dooce as an example:
Of all the scandalous and improper and immoral and INSANE things that have gone on in my extended and immediate families — and trust me, THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF SUCH THINGS, these people are Southern and clinically deranged — that MY WEBSITE is the one thing my family points to as being the Tool of Satan because I say FUCK much too often, well people, THAT IS JUST ABSURD.
I do not know her motivation but her voice is heard and read by hundreds and thousands. Everyday. How about you? What motivates you to blog?
Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Dominic Rivera
Filed under: Blogging
Initially it was solely about keeping in touch with friends and family after the birth of my son (because I was going to be working from home, and well, busy. I had an idea of a semi-public bulletin board of sorts. I also liked the idea of a space where I could put up photos and mention key milestones or whatever it was that I was thinking at the given time, it this sense it is like an online journal. It might be a nice thing to go back and look at, or let Henry read, just to see what was going on when he was really little.
I also put up links to odd stories, silly things or videos that might amuse my mother or brother.
Then I realised (through Google Analytics) that, for whatever reason, there were a regular bunch of 15 or so people that kept coming back and reading what I was posting. Now, I still don’t know who these people were/are (most are overseas in places where I don’t think that I know anyone), but I have sort of felt compelled to ‘entertain’ them, so I’ve been posting more regularly, and about a wider variety of things.
Now there are maybe 30 or 40 people who’ve been visiting, and the thing has sort of snowballed from there. At the moment, I’m trying to draw people to comment, but still find the whole thing a little embarrassing, because I don’t know why anyone would be interested in coming and looking in at my life.