So I was browsing through blogs this afternoon and ran into someone talking about why people blog. So I started thinking of why I blog. I started it a while ago on and off. First just updating my page by hand. I first did it just to kind of keep track of updates on my site, then I found myself wanting to write more. In the end though, a few things really pushed me towards posting regularly.
The first was my health and keeping people up to date with what was going on with it. It seemed an easy way to be able to post things someplace where anyone who wanted to could get up to date information. It also became a way for me to vent about some of my feelings about the whole thing. If people wanted to read, they could. It wasn’t anything I wouldn’t tell anyone face to face.
The second thing that inspired me to post more was finding Blogger. I had been updating my site on and off by hand, but it was a pain in the ass. I’d have to play around with HTML all the time and would end up spending more time getting that right then thinking about what to write. Using Blogger just made it all so easy.
And finally, I ran into some really cool blog sites out there. Zannah’s were some of the first ones that made me think about posting things more often. It also became an easy way to share things like links to interesting sites with friends. In the past I’d just fire off a ton of IMs to people with a URL. Now I can just post it and they’ll see it. The ultimate lazy person’s tool.
So that’s it. Some of the reasons why I blog. (Oh yeah, it’s the ‘cool’ thing to do too! :))