and i'm still wondering if i should blog. so. why -do- i blog anyway? i just read da's blog, and to answer her question, why do i blog? or if it could be generalized, why do we blog? i think its some inherent exhibitionist quality in us that want people to know what we do and what we think. because if not, why don't we just keep a diary? or it could be argued that i'm too lazy to write. shrug. which is partly true, because i'm online most of the time anyway, i'm more or less lost to the internet highway, and might as well blog. keep an online diary. but then i have a boring life, so why should i poison the network and internet space with my crap? well tough. people are selfish, and posess some modicum ot vanity as well. who cares what we blog, as long as people read it?
probably one of the reasons why people have counters on their pages. perhaps a counter serves as a secret symbol of one's popularity and how many thousands of people visiting their blogs because of how interesting it is or desirable the person may be to others. but of course there are the people whose counters lag far behind. perhaps we take some sadistic pleasure in deriving some self pity from the lack of readers or add to our insecurity by cooking up some idea about how no one wants to know anything bout us. it could be that... that we blog on in some hope our voice is heard, that maybe someday things may look up. or perhaps blogging is a form of catharsis, releasing our pent up emotions into the vast world of the internet.
why do people -read- blogs anyway? of course if there's some exhibitionistic quality in some of us, its arguable that perhaps lies a voyeuristic quality as well. but then again, who wants to hear me expound on yet another of my cockamime theories. so i think its best that i stop. now.
:10:20 PM: :sugah~plum
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