What is a blog and why should I start blogging?

Blogging is a way to communicate your feelings, your dreams and hopes about anything you’d like to say.  Be it political or something about your life, it’s like a diary for the world to read.  Blogging is a diary on the Internet for everyone to read or you can have subscribers of people who you only want to read your blog. 

Blogging can be for personal use, as a way of communication with your friends, or it can be used as a business tool for updates and information about your business.  It’s almost like instant messaging if you keep it up daily with up-to-the-minute information that people can use whether in business or in their everyday lives. 

Blogging is very therapeutic when you have strong feelings pent up inside about something that touched your heart or something that bothers you about your city or state or about the government in general.  You can get responses to your blog, that way you’ll find like-minded people, so blogging is also an open discussion about whatever it is you like to talk about. 

Why blog?  Surfing’s no fun if you can’t tell people what you found. Say you found a dancing bear that jumps through a fiery hoop and lands on the cat. You just got to share this with someone, everyone.  You can send an e-mail with the address of this funny thing that you found to everyone in your address book, but wouldn’t it be easier if you had your own blog that way everyone can look at their leisure at what you found and read your comments on it and post their own comments on it? People love to comment on one another’s blogs. You can basically have a full conversation with many different people just through comments. Don’t get your feelings hurt if someone doesn’t like your thoughts though. 

Blogging is a personal decision, because if you want people to know what you’re thinking, if you want to make a difference by what you say and do them by all means start blogging.  Bloggers have changed the world with their writing, they have changed the ending to movies which may not seem like a lot but it is a think about it. 

You can start blogging to make people notice things, if you’re against the war then start blogging about it, you will get many reactions by your blog space to what you have to say.  If you’re a parent can have funny things to say about parenting and useful advice then you should be blogging, new parents will appreciate your helpful advice and funny antidotes that they themselves will eventually go through. 

You can blog about the individual holidays and what they mean to you and ask people to leave messages about what the holidays mean to them, including Memorial Day, Dr. Martin Luther King Day and the Fourth of July.  This is a great way to get conversations going and people talking in an exchange of links to other ideas you may not have thought of but other people have.

Now just one more thing.  When you’re thinking about starting your own blog here is why you need your own domain.