On Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogging
At one point or the other, you have probably stumbled on one or two of these hybrids between web articles and web forum posts.
Most of the time you don't even mean to read a blog; it just so happened that one particularly lazy Sunday afternoon you decided to type "hamsters for pets" on Google and clicked on the first result which happens to be a blog about someone getting a pet hamster.
Blogs cover so many topics because they capitalize on human experience.
There are no rules and no formats involved you simply speak your mind.
There are so many topics that blogs talk about simply because people think about and experience a lot of things.
The blogging platform is the easiest way to get a message out, a message where you have not followed certain formats to get across.
But what makes it persistent? Society has a way of maintaining things.
In Sociology, a theory called functionalism states that things exist because they serve a function.
In this perspective, blogs must be serving a certain function in society to justify its uncanny way of enduring.
Why do you bother going through a blog? In case you just stumbled into it, what keeps you there long enough to read what the message is and even give it significant thought and consideration? Blogs are great examples of human interest pieces.
Human beings are social creatures.
I'm sure everyone has heard the "no man is an island" cliché more than enough to know what it means.
And perhaps this is the reason blogs are such a hit whether one admits it or not.
People are interested to know what makes other people think the way they do, there is a certain feeling of intrigue that comes with getting a chance to peek into someone else's mind.
But why should you care about what a blogger talks about? Surely the blogger isn't a Pulitzer Prize award winning article writer that warrants an attentive audience, those types of writers usually reserve their thoughts to paper back and hard bound literature.
Often time's the attractiveness of blogs have nothing to do with writers credibility, in most cases it's the opposite.
People are more excited to hear about things from someone far easier to relate to than a doctor emeritus with 10 best sellers under his belt.
There are so many reasons one can be attracted to read a blog.
The blog could be about something a reader knows nothing about and can potentially become a novel and vicarious experience for a reader, the reader may even catch himself saying "so that's what its about" learning something new in the process.
The blog may even be about something a reader may have experienced before and rouse a curiosity about sharing similar or contradicting views about the experience.
Blogs are great forms of literature, they allow people to learn things and share experiences freely and without restrictions.
Who knows blogs may be the start of a new genre of literature, something more appropriate for today's advanced and free culture.
Most of the time you don't even mean to read a blog; it just so happened that one particularly lazy Sunday afternoon you decided to type "hamsters for pets" on Google and clicked on the first result which happens to be a blog about someone getting a pet hamster.
Blogs cover so many topics because they capitalize on human experience.
There are no rules and no formats involved you simply speak your mind.
There are so many topics that blogs talk about simply because people think about and experience a lot of things.
The blogging platform is the easiest way to get a message out, a message where you have not followed certain formats to get across.
But what makes it persistent? Society has a way of maintaining things.
In Sociology, a theory called functionalism states that things exist because they serve a function.
In this perspective, blogs must be serving a certain function in society to justify its uncanny way of enduring.
Why do you bother going through a blog? In case you just stumbled into it, what keeps you there long enough to read what the message is and even give it significant thought and consideration? Blogs are great examples of human interest pieces.
Human beings are social creatures.
I'm sure everyone has heard the "no man is an island" cliché more than enough to know what it means.
And perhaps this is the reason blogs are such a hit whether one admits it or not.
People are interested to know what makes other people think the way they do, there is a certain feeling of intrigue that comes with getting a chance to peek into someone else's mind.
But why should you care about what a blogger talks about? Surely the blogger isn't a Pulitzer Prize award winning article writer that warrants an attentive audience, those types of writers usually reserve their thoughts to paper back and hard bound literature.
Often time's the attractiveness of blogs have nothing to do with writers credibility, in most cases it's the opposite.
People are more excited to hear about things from someone far easier to relate to than a doctor emeritus with 10 best sellers under his belt.
There are so many reasons one can be attracted to read a blog.
The blog could be about something a reader knows nothing about and can potentially become a novel and vicarious experience for a reader, the reader may even catch himself saying "so that's what its about" learning something new in the process.
The blog may even be about something a reader may have experienced before and rouse a curiosity about sharing similar or contradicting views about the experience.
Blogs are great forms of literature, they allow people to learn things and share experiences freely and without restrictions.
Who knows blogs may be the start of a new genre of literature, something more appropriate for today's advanced and free culture.
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