I JUST found out this week that blogging is already 10 years old (13 for some).
To celebrate blogging’s birthday, I thought of starting a social experiment. This requires you to respond with a short description of how you got hooked on blogging. Let’s limit it to 50 words.
Let me start:
My daughter was born three years ago. It was the scariest yet most heartwarming feeling I had and I didn’t want to forget about it. So I opened a blog, and started typing away… I got hooked on blogging ever since!
April 13th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
attention whoring and pure teen angst.
April 13th, 2007 at 11:30 am
blogging is a therapy for me… this way i am able to express how i feel, my pains, my regrets, my struggles and also my joy…
i just started blogging this month, and i got hooked… =)
i hope to have more blogging years…
April 11th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
at first it was just out of my interest… to write down online whatever i am thinking, instead of writing it down on paper or on wordpad (then ur computer crashes because its bugged). so u lose stuff. but then, i ended up writing down on paper also, then transfering it to my blog! (useful)
now, whats hooking me up is knowing that i have an audience. when people leave comments (which i really encourage them to do), or leave shoutouts, or just checking my stat counter (which has become very addictive, mind you), it gets me hyped up to come up with stuff to write in my blog.
April 10th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
i am happy to be a part of the growing world of blog society…its a place where i can rant, ramble and share my thoughts, and feelings…my own private turf…only place i can talk about my BOO…our happy, sad and exciting world…I hope BOO can start his own blog site soon…Way to go BLOGGERS!
April 10th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Words always come out spontaneously when I click the keyboard (typewriter then) and blogging provided me with the ultimate rush from chasing my thoughts and immortalizing them in every blog post.
April 10th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
loneliness and home sickness got me hooked on blogging. moving to a country far away from home, family and friends urged me to look for an alternative family & cirlce of friends. i found this in the blogging community.
April 10th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
I was visiting my girlfriend (now my wife) on a weekend in their office and they, her colleagues, allowed me to use their computer while they were busy with some stuffs. With no plans of surfing, I was excited to write down chronicles of my work as an animal welfare advocate. I felt obige to share the plight of our askals to the world. Literally, my blogging has gone to the dogs. |-)
April 10th, 2007 at 10:29 am
my blog is an online history of all my travels, adventures, food trips with emphasis on history, environment and heritage conservation.
Someday, I want my sons and grandchildren that I once took the road less travelled
also want to share to showcase our country to foreigners from the perspective of a local
April 10th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Citizen journalism. I am fascinated in journalism since I took it as an elective in high school. It is easy to have view, but having a medium to publish them is hard 10 years ago. Now, I can publish my views at the push of a button. Drop me a line at http://scdiffer.blogspot.com/
April 10th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Family probs + suicidal tendencies + frustrations in life
Blogging has been my outlet for 7 years. It’s therapeutic. But lately I’ve been losing interest. I’ve been wanting to write an entry about it; maybe I’ll just tell it there. Baka maiyak pa ako, lol.
April 10th, 2007 at 8:50 am
for stress therapy, anger management, voicing my thoughts, sharing my views to the world, showing the funny part of me, etc. it’s a great way to open my heart.
April 10th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Blogging isn’t just a social networking or a technology thing, for me it’s a way of taking out someone’s frustrations, despondents,and sadness. It gives me a freedom to share everything that I have in mind and soul.
April 10th, 2007 at 4:00 am
I’ve always wanted to find an outlet for my gift to write and engage with other people in that medium of conversation. Blogging opened that “floodgate” so to speak.
April 10th, 2007 at 3:12 am
I started blogging to share my newfound hobby(papercraft/paper modelling) to more people. It also feels good to see many returning visitors to my blog and receive emails from people around the world.
April 9th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
I’ve been blogging since 2002, and I am increasingly getting bored with it.
It has been fun writing about myself, my views, my thoughts, my relationships and my sexual life — even to the point of pandering bits and pieces of myself to the public just to gain readership.
I mean I had to stand out from the rest of the bloggers out there who also write about expressing themselves.
Now the web has become oversaturated with people wanting to express themselves. I mean, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
It just got so boring.
April 9th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
(1) You can reach more with your advocacy
(2) Networking and friendship
(3) Readers feedback (thank you’s and opposing views)
April 9th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Let me join you…
I wanted to have my very own site and that was when I started my own blog. It became my channel to sort out clashing ideas and express myself. I just wanted it to be, literally, an online diary. It still sure is.
April 9th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
The ability to exchange views, share insights and socialize with people made me graduate from “personal websites” to blogging networks on different platforms. Ever since I found that “virtual social-support group,” I’ve come up with more ideas and have eventually graduated further into conceptual blogging.