1. I first decided to create a blog a few years ago. Back then, I was into it
mostly as a way to keep up with friends. After all, in our generation you
practically have to make a blog if you want to have any chance of keeping in
touch with anyone. People move on so fast, and letters and phone calls are
quickly becoming a neglected and forgotten art form. Even e-mails are starting
to go the way of the dinosaurs – at least as a means to keep up with you
friends.
Creating a blog has a lot of advantages over these other forms of communication.
One of the biggest ones is that you can give your news to everyone at once. Once
you create a blog, you don't have to worry about whether or not you are
repeating yourself every time you tell the story about the other night and what
happened at the club with you and the cute bartender. You can just post it up on
you free blog and let everyone read it for him or herself.
That is, of course, if you create a blog for social networking. People create
blogs for many different reasons. Although social networking is probably the
most common reason nowadays, a lot of people are into it for something more
specific. Many blogs revolve around a specific interest. Some of them like to
analyze the news from a certain perspective, others give information about a
certain hobby or occupation, and others are dedicated to following the buzz in a
particular industry. You can even make money with a blog if you know how to do
it.
Even if you don't really have anything to write about, you might want to create
a blog just to keep up with the people around you. After all, it is important to
keep an eye and an ear open to what is going on on the web. The easiest way to
do this is to become a blogger and to communicate with other bloggers. Being
part of an online community is more and more necessary if you want to keep in
touch. Not only do you need the web to keep up with your friends, but also to
stay in touch with your culture, your business, and the world as a whole.
Blogging isn't the only way to do it, but it will help you to get noticed.
