Why Blog
Non-bloggers often wonder at or ridicule bloggers. “Why write a diary and make it public?” A blog can but doesn’t have to be a diary. It could be about anything, written anytime, anywhere, every day, or week, or even month. Yeah, blogging is probably more often egotistic and exhibitionistic than not. There are plenty of noisy, narcissistic people in real life that we can’t avoid, but one great thing about blogs is that if you don’t like one, all you have to do is not go to it.
I started blogging by accident one late night as I stumbled across some site called blogger.com. I played around with it and thought I’d try it out as a way to keep up with friends and family as an alternative to sending out infrequent mass e-mails. Before too long, I added comments system (thanks, John), my blogroll grew longer and longer, and people started linking to me, too. A number of bloggers in the loose group I fell in with were of the same general theological persuasion. One thing led to another and I found myself heading to the history conference at Moscow to see what kind of place it was and to check if it were someplace I could go to study.
The people I met there changed my life, and I know they will be friends (for better or worse, *grin*) for eternity. Blogging is a blessing and a wonderful way for friends to keep up with each other.
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