Why do we blog?

[gemcitytiffany]

A friend on twitter this morning posed the question, "Do bloggers blog for the blog comments or just for self-satisfaction? Or for some other reason?"

It's funny because my views on blogging have changes drastically over the past ten years. I believe there are different levels and types of blogs as well.

I've been here on LJ since 2001 and it is the

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[ne_seul_jamais]

then you will REALLY get the entry about the funeral im posting now.

[jodea]

I'm certainly a writer. A blogger, maybe, though I still hate that word. Here on LJ, I write to write- whatever I am thinking, whatever bothers me.
On da Cheeseblarg, I write to amuse and to become famous and to feel popular and loved. I still feel like people aren't reading. I can never get enough hits or feedback, because it is my sad way of getting the attention I don't get otherwise. And it feels like my way out. But even before it got popular, it was my way of making myself be happy. Notice silly things to keep my life positive, so maybe I would still write it if it weren't popular, but I probably wouldn't spend entire weeks working on posts.

[gemcitytiffany]

You're totally a blogger :)
But yeah, the word still makes me crazy.

I think you blog to keep sane, which is pretty much what I do lol

[miss58vintage]

I write for myself. I have this one here, which is more personal and I have my wedding one.

At first, I kept my wedding one for others so I didn't have to repeat how I was feeling or where I was in my planning stages to people and then I was like "Who cares if I have to repeat myself?!" So it turned out to be for me in the end since I plan on printing everything out after and turning into a scrapbook type journal. Eventually that will turn into a newlywed blog :)

It is nice though when someone pays attention to it and is like "Hey! Someone likes what I'm saying/doing!"

I'm super chatty as well haha I like being able to share things with people outside of my own world, and I like having friends and knowing people throughout the world!

[gemcitytiffany]

Yes! Getting to know people all over the world is so nice!

[emiliefisher]

i love this post!!!! i'm posting about it...now.

[gemcitytiffany]

haha! Yes!

[zeroed_in]

I write in my LJ because if I didn't, I'm pretty sure I would go crazy.
The first time I heard the word "blog" I was like, "What's a blog?" and my friend Mike was like, "Weblog, like your Deadjournal?" I did Deadjournal for a couple years before making the switch the Livejournal. I kept both, plus a freeopendiary, melodramatic, and some other blogs just to get it all out.

[gemcitytiffany]

I also had dead journal!