What is a Blog? What is blog about? Why do we/you/I have a blog? What is its purpose? These are just a few of the questions I was asked when someone espied my lovely key rings.
It was pretty easy to answer the first one, a blog is an online journal, of whatever, it could be your thoughts and feelings, the news, poetry, stories, jokes, the list is endless.
The second one, well it depends on the person/s as to what it is about. Explaining that the one that I belong to is like a community where people read other peoples ramblings writings, and leave comments, or not depending on how they feel.
Does that mean it is open to the public? Well, yes unless you make your posts friends only or private, now certain posts can be friends only, because these are people that you know will not ridicule you or make nasty/snide comments about something that is very private.
If it is private why write it on the www? Well because you like/need to write things down sometimes, and having people that support you is nice.
One of the nice things for me is being relatively anonymous, apart from a certain amount of people the others do not know me from Adam, and they dont judge, do you know how nice it is to not be judged?
You mean you actually know some of these people? Yes I have met some, and others I talk to on the phone and text with, chat online with, and I will be meeting some more, hopefully, soon.
I was asked a multitude of questions, all of which I answered the same way, it is about the individual, it is about what they want/need, it is about camaraderie, about getting to know folk that you would never have met/known/spoken to, without this medium.
Do you know how many people say the same thing, what about the perverts? All I can answer to that is, yes there are some weird and whacky peoiple on the world wide web, but for the most part they are not perverts. You will get some, but they tend to stick to their own kind, and to the places where they can act out/imagine their fantasies.
People that dont access things like blog sites etc seem to have this weird idea about what they are and of the people that use them. Some think they are all about politics and religion, or weirdos writing weird stuff ( I have to go with that last one though
) When someone says to me I never thought you would have one of them really makes me laugh, erm why not? But they can never give me an answer because they dont know what it is about.
Neither did I, I guess I had pretty much the same idea about them if I thought about them at all, untill I went on to one which was pretty much an online diary, shown the way by someone that at that time was a friend ( I thought) it intrigued me, and on looking for the place again after losing the link, I stumbled on this place.
And the rest as they say is history, sometimes I get fed up of the people that try, for whatever reasons, to bring me down to their level, sometimes the well dries up, and no matter how hard I try the words wont come, sometimes I dont comment on other peoples blogs for a while, because I have nothing new to say to them, or what I might have said has been said. Mostly people dont mind, the odd few take umbrage and my friends list depletes a little.
Such is life, if you only want me on your list so I will constantly comment, well sorry, I dont always have the time and if you dont write something I want to comment on, I dont have the inclination, if thats the situation, you best remove me, as right now the study takes up more of my time and the comments will probably become even less.
And now the books call and the kettle is singing, and I have rambled long enough, have a great Saturday