To Blog or not to Blog

If you are from South Africa, I’m sure you’ve seen the advert on TV where the woman talks about blogging. She looks thoughtful then says, ‘Mm, blogging. Mikey set it up for me.’
It’s the most irritating thing I’ve ever seen! But anyway the point I’m trying to get to is, since everyone nowadays has a blog, even the ‘Stork’ lady on TV, I started thinking about creating my own.What’s the point though. There are literally millions and gazillions of websites out there, of which half are probably blogs. So you have to think to yourself, what are the chances of someone actually landing on my blog and then, actually reading the rubbish I’ve got to say!

I suppose it is a lot to do with our human nature. I think we all have a need to feel accepted and recognised. In a way, having a blog sort of makes you feel important. You tell yourself that you life is important enough that people would want to read about it!
Well that and the fact that, I can go off here and rant and rave and no-one actually cares.

So let’s see, the definition of blog, Google brings up 61, 800, 000 results for the search term, ‘definition of blog’. The first result is Wikipedia. In the first paragraph it says, ‘A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.‘ Well there you have it.

But typical mankind have taken it a step further.Huge corporate companies have started catching on and have turned it into a marketing tool. In fact, I know some of them encourage their staff to blog. (I think this might just be a scam to keep tabs on everyone)

Whatever your reason, at the end of the day it’s about having fun. And that is entirely what I plan to have with this blog. Have a browse around, come back, don’t come back. But just have fun!
Happy blogging!

In: Day to Day

Tags: blog, bloggers, Google, South Africa, wikipedia