I've been tagged by an avid, if unlinked, reader. He's unlinked for reasons he understands. ;)
But here's the tag: Give three reasons why you blog. Tag three other people.
Cool. I can do this.
Reason the First: I'm a writer. I love it. I need it. My blog gives me a place to write beyond what publishers and editors want. This is where I can be creative, boring, interesting, mundane, introspective or outrageous.
Reason the Second: It works as a journal. This is where I vent, process, be excited, be totally honest and unfiltered.
Reason the Third: The social aspect of it is great. It's like getting to sit around at the coffee shop and talk all night. I have been challenged, made to think, supported, contradicted, disagreed and agreed with. And how does that suck? The question seems more to be Why don't people blog? ;)
To the tag...
1. Krystal
2. Speaker for the Bread
3. D-Man
If y'all have the time and/or inclination.
Those are Pobble Thoughts. That and a buck fifty will get you coffee.
11 comments:
Yeah, why DON'T people blog? Guess they feel they don't have anything to say? Or they feel what they may say isn't important? Beats me!
I don't have anything to say, and that has yet to stop me!
I think the reason people don't blog is because they feel what they say is rather inconsequential or the fact that they start to blog and no one really pays attention to their blog so they just kind of...stop.
Anyways, we always knew you were a writer!
P.S.: Write me an e-mail maybe? Pencil that in for sometime in the near future.
Sharing ideas is an acquired skill. You may have noticed that many people don't like discussions either. To some, a discussion feels too much like an argument. When I get excited about a topic, I am often mistaken for belligerent. But differences of opinion and perspective are vital to democracies and we need to argue in a rhetorical sense. But i've been in grad student seminars where people still don't know how to be disagreed with or how to disagree so that everyone remains comfortable. The thought of doing this online is daunting to some. Plus, dreamer is right and some people are looking for readers and just stop when they get none.
Nice tag - linked or not. Agreed on all fronts as it's a great sounding board that sharpens writing skills in general, and you get to meet a diverse group of people that you probably wouldn't otherwise have the chance to "sit down with."
Understandably the Pobble question is other than: "Give three reasons why you DON'T blog". I am probably among a minority here that follow the Pobble, comment sporadically and yet do not blog. Maybe someday, maybe never. Maybe a matter of time to invest, maybe a belief that I haven't that much to say, maybe a fear that no readers would appear, maybe a generational thing. Haven't thought it out.
I don't have a relevant comment, I just like to let you know I've been by. HI!!
Hi Pobble!
When I started blogging,it was partly a journal/partly for friends to read---I didn't really know at first that people, random people would actually find and read it.
Sometimes I think I'd be a more open and prolific writer if I totally forgot about other people reading my stuff.
That's where I'd like to get to again in my blogging. Hang the amount of readers I have and just write!
But it IS fun knowing there are other writers out there to get to know.Hmmm, I DO rather like the social aspect of it after all.
I've met some pretty interesting people through blogs, and I've kept in touch with friends far away... the value of blogs as a social tool is invaluable for me.
Much more fun than a boring old phone call. :)
I don't know if I have three reasons why I blog. I blog as a journal, a place to vent and just be me what ever that is, unfiltered and uncensored. It seems like no matter how open and comfortable I may be in my relationships with my dearest and deepest friends, there's still some kind of level of holding back or inhibition or control. Having a blog gives me an alternative avenue where that bit of inhibition is 100% diminished.
And as I have a few loyal readers they get to have a unique view inside my little world of me :)
Because I'm late to the party, I'll answer the tag here:
1: I get weird when Troy goes away and needed to vent and express myself, which is why I started.
2. At first I wanted to give up after I didn't have any readers, but dug in my heels and kept going because I've given up on so many other things I've started. So for a while I blogged out of sheer stubbornness.
3. Now I blog still for reason number one, and for the connections that I have made with people like you.
Ditto. I blog for many of the same reason. Writing releases stress.
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