It's Not You, It's Me

Currently Listening To :: The Scientist :: Coldplay

Blogrings, linking people to expand your online network based on who you know. The Friendster of writing. It seems people now have blogs as a matter of course, one of life's little social essentials. "Oh you blog? Wow, so do I!" We must have an instant rapport! Let's link each other and form a blogring with out friends!

Why start a new blog when you already have one? When I originally started blogging, it was really to help with my part-time uni job at the time, that of a campus journalist. I just wanted to write. I carried a pad around everywhere. I'd list out ideas, test them with a few fellow bloggers, and have a record of my work that wasn't changed or twisted by my editor for mass campus consumption.

As the time passed and I moved on from Uni life into the world without campus boundaries, blogging suddenly exploded, and life without one became unthinkable. What did people do before blogging?

Sure, part of it all is wanting people to read. People who write for themselves keep personal diaries. Blogs are for display. I'm not disputing this. I'm also sure I'm not the first person who has started a seperate blog so that they can write what they are really thinking, as opposed to what they want everyone else in their social circle to think.

*sigh* It could be all so simple, but TIME and AOL and news outlets have taken something and turned it into MTV.

So, here we are, back at the start. I'm here to escape. What are you here for?