I'm not sure of the exact question I want to ask anyway, so yes, you answered the question :)
I occasionally toy with the idea of writing a completely public blog, and I've been thinking a lot lately about blogging and how it relates to/is replacing other forms of media.
On a personal level, I can only say what value blogs have to me. 1- it allows me to document my life without having to find space for paper journals and allows me to review it much easier that flipping through paper journals
2- It creates an enhanced "forum" experience. Forums are wonderful tools to form communities to share ideas and to network.
3- It allows me to keep up to date on the lives of friends as well as share moments in my life with family and friends, without sending out individual notices.
4- Keeps me in the habit of writing (almost) daily and also keeps me reflecting on my life and the world (almost) daily
I first got an LJ account to read up on friends of mine who had an LJ account. After a year or so I realized I should begin posting myself. I never did it for other people to read; I did it for myself. I wanted to record my memories because for me putting them in writing helps me to remember them. I'll sometimes go back and read them.
Other people start a blog with the sole intention of trying to reach an audience and this can be for or as their job. I've not seen blog entries as short at the ones used as example in the Urban Dictionary entry. Those seem more like Twitter posts. I wouldn't call that a blog myself, though it technically is a log of someone's activities. But a blog needs to be more descriptive or in-depth to be considered as such, in my opinion.
I've been thinking recently about how blogs and Facebook and Twitter, etc. relate to and are replacing other forms of media and communication, and so I've been curious how others perceive these things as well.
LJ: My in-depth place to write about things going on in my life. Facebook: What I'm doing or reading at the moment. Twitter: Comments on thoughtful insights I have on anything that comes to mind.
This is how I feel I use these services. The thing about what is the purpose of what is that there is no predefined agenda for the use of any of these services. Private individuals, newspeople, celebs, even fire departments all use Twitter. I think people should just use any service how they best see fit.
I like the blog because I can connect to people I never would normally connect with in real life. I tend to gravitate towards a certain "type" of person: good or bad, who knows. But I definately see a trend. Here, I can converse with others with completely different viewpoints than my midwestern Ohio viewpoint, people with other political affiliations, people in a completely different circle than me. I can ask advice, I can give advice and I can become more aware of the world around me.
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I occasionally toy with the idea of writing a completely public blog, and I've been thinking a lot lately about blogging and how it relates to/is replacing other forms of media.
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1- it allows me to document my life without having to find space for paper journals and allows me to review it much easier that flipping through paper journals
2- It creates an enhanced "forum" experience. Forums are wonderful tools to form communities to share ideas and to network.
3- It allows me to keep up to date on the lives of friends as well as share moments in my life with family and friends, without sending out individual notices.
4- Keeps me in the habit of writing (almost) daily and also keeps me reflecting on my life and the world (almost) daily
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Other people start a blog with the sole intention of trying to reach an audience and this can be for or as their job. I've not seen blog entries as short at the ones used as example in the Urban Dictionary entry. Those seem more like Twitter posts. I wouldn't call that a blog myself, though it technically is a log of someone's activities. But a blog needs to be more descriptive or in-depth to be considered as such, in my opinion.
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Facebook: What I'm doing or reading at the moment.
Twitter: Comments on thoughtful insights I have on anything that comes to mind.
This is how I feel I use these services. The thing about what is the purpose of what is that there is no predefined agenda for the use of any of these services. Private individuals, newspeople, celebs, even fire departments all use Twitter. I think people should just use any service how they best see fit.
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