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Blog is a Self-Reflection

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Any disagree?


Some bloggers' viewpoints explored in one article about "Why Do We Blog" have inspired me to find out the answer of my own. Although there are too many people giving each opinion, only few of them answer the question exactly close to mine. Thus, they have brought me the conclusion that blog is myself-reflection. Short, easy and meaningful! From blogging, I expect the readers would know me personally better than just seeing my pictures, looking at my appearance or body language in a short while, rare talking, reading my short comment or unfunny joking in a virtual club, or any other judgmental issue you name it. Moreover, I intend to stay in touch with the people I care about like close friends, family and relatives who live half way of the world. Yes, blog is such a media to entertain them and to share my life and communicate what my life is going on.



To be honest, I like reading people's blog particularly the people from the same country to get curious what life they do have, what kind of personality they are, and what subject they like to talk about. I should say most of them don't do writing as what a real blogger should do. They prefer, either on purpose or not, to display or brag something boastfully. I could tell from the pictures they show in their blogs, they expect the readers would have thought that they do have a wonderful life and lived happily ever after. How could you say you have a good life by picturing someone's property not belonging to you while you just rent the house but you claim it as your own? Do you think you are good enough spending the money by taking pictures of yourself shopping all around fancy stores and carrying huge shopping bags to tell anyone "hey, look at me.. I am a brand person!"? Do all your new equipment, clothes, shoes, purses, furniture, computers, gadget, and any stuff you just bought from the store or internet and post them into your blog really make you as happy as you want? Have you ever thought you burry yourself into a deeper debt while your husband gets sweat all the time to pay the ongoing bills? Can you fool people by a picture riding an used car you inform people that your new purchased car is much better than a luxurious car you mention in your blog? Oh yes, I understand you are a new beginner driving a car that you never had one before married but is it such a pride for you while driving a car is a must in this country, not such a wealth? Why do you try to convince people that you came from a good family by talking what each member of your family does and how they go overseas back and forth? Are you intellectual enough to announce anyone that you could get job easier than anybody else and how proud you are that your job should have been required with a specific major background you've never been educated? Well, well, maybe I get wrong about these people. They might not mean to do those things expectedly but the way they write the blog directs me to those perceptions. Or, they might instead hide their miserable life behind their show-off pictures and wealthy look... who knows!


Absolutely I enjoy to see the pictures of their cute children, cooking and gardening because those teach me lessons and share the valuable experiences I never knew. I hate to say that I don't like to see the pictures of the children fashioned and posed like an adult that I suspect the parents ask them to do that way expecting them to be a model someday as what they have obsessed in the past. Too pity, they should let their children grow up to be themself in normal way, not to push them to be a parents mold.


Among the blogs I read, I like two or three blogs which I shall call a real blogger. They write whatever they like to talk to express their feelings in certain moment, to make up several split experiences into one story, to keep up her new life without intention to show off something.


Find out the following real bloggers say about their need to blogging:


Brian Moffatt
And the bestest bestest part about blogging is that I always find someone else who sums it up - whatever it is - better than I ever could and rather than say "Hey I was thinking that" or "Gee I wish I had written that first" I can now say thanks for writing that - saves me the bother.


Seth Finkelstein
Short Answer: "To be heard". In my view, there are three regimes, roughly: One, few, many.

"One" == Diaries. Some people keep their diary on-line, and don't mind if others read it.
"Few" == Socializing, chatting. The intended audience is close friends, and events only of interest to that circle.
"Many" == Punditry. The goal is to reach as many people as possible with your ideas.
These categories aren't strict walls, but are general aims.


Dervala Hanley says,
I blog for the same reasons that Alistair Cooke read those Letters From America until he was ninety-six or seven. I'm an emigrant. My family is thousands of miles away, and my friends are scattered around the world. Each entry is a letter home, wherever that is, and it's also a letter about home, wherever that might be.


Chris Locke:
I felt much more comfortable on the Internet where I could express my deepest feelings.


Michelle Goodrich:
I blog mostly because insomnia is more entertaining at a keyboard. I've learned a lot about people all over the world, people I would otherwise never get to know. Through their blogs I learn about everyday life in faraway places. We are all so much alike. HTML and CSS are universal so we are able to communicate ideas in code. I think we all wonder why we blog.


Renee Blodgett
I have friends with blogs specifically dedicated to technology, politics, music, photography and public relations, and yet I am not so focused, probably because I'm passionate about too many things. And perhaps because a blend of different topics allows that passion to come through in a voice I don't hear in quite the same way inside a blog about one thing.

Blogs should show personality. If you pay close attention to someone's human side, you're bound to get a fresh perspective certainly a good reason to read a new blog or have a new conversation. It should tap into your inner passion and pull it out, kicking and screaming, wanting to share with others in ways that will entertain, heal and teach people. For me, it's the humanity I see in a blog that keeps me coming back for more. Here, I write whatever comes to my mind; things that I'm passionate about, people I care about and issues that disturb or alarm me.


Theo:
Being an extrovert, having the possibility of someone else reading my 'stuff' helped me keep at it. Now, although my blogging is still mostly personal in nature, I use the forum to share original poetry and prose, thoughts and ideas, and occasionally a photo or two. It is sorta like having a conversation with others where my part is spoken and then 'hangs around' for others to come, respond to, and move on. It is both timeless and personal in that way. My blog is now very much an expression of myself.


Phil Windley
I blog to be part of a community of people whom I respect; I want to understand their thinking and I want them to understand mine. I blog to be part of the conversation. I blog to remember. I blog refine my thinking. I blog because I don't think I really understand something until I write about it.


Norm Jenson:
I blog to practice my writing, but often lose my focus and scream, and yell, and stamp my feet.


Ken Camp:
That was the start, Today it's very different. I blog because it's how I share dialogue with friends. I have a large collection of friends. Friends who I've never met. In many cases I never will. We may email on occasion, but we hare our lives online. We share new pets, new grandkids, kids' sickness, passing of parents, job frustration, desperation over the state of the world. We share hope. We share laughter. We share a bond of feeling comfortable together. We share a sense of adventures. Why blog? Because it's our neighborhood. It's where we live. We create ourselves and we spend much of our time in some online mode. It's just an extension of who we are and how we spend our time.


(The 10 responds to "Why Do We Blog" taken from a blog of Sandhill Track, Voice and Vision in Decision.)