Ask Me Weekend #3 Month: Why do I blog?
Oct 27, 2006 Ask Me Weekend, Brainwaves
Why do you blog? (This is not rhetorical – I’m really genuinely interested, because I often ask myself the same question…)
– Dave
I have a lot of friends, both in real life and on the Internet, and with large numbers of people comes many varying viewpoints. Interestingly, though, a great many of those viewpoints appear to differ significantly from my own, meaning that, in a lot of cases, I’m surrounded by a great number of people who disagree with my political/religious/musical/what-to-eat-for-dinner point of view.
As a result, be it the actual case or not, I end up left with the sensation that I’m being surrounded and silenced by the rest of the group — a group that is working from the assumption that they know how it is, and no other. That’s not a slight, insult or accusation against any person or group, only a perception. — that’s just the way my silly little brain works in this situation.
Therefore, in addition to the “I went to work/to school/to the mall/to hell/batshit crazy today” stories that tend to show up in some most personal blogs, I look at my blog as a place to express and explain my point of view on news, politics, technology, et cetera without getting shouted down by a mob telling me I’m wrong. Which is, of course, not to say that I don’t value other opinions — I welcome comments, will often answer back and continue to discuss my blog topics, and I don’t delete (non-spam/non-abusive) comments.
I just think of this as my own little soapbox on the web — a place where I can say, “Hi! This is what I have to say on this matter.”
