Why Do We Blog?

In the article "Why Do We Blog?" there are many different facets of the blogging world, and they all have a place on the internet. Different people express themselves differently online, but most choose to set up a code of ethics or a moral code to live by while blogging.  This can sometimes include staying away from politics and other things that are distasteful. Sometimes blogs can develop communities around them and create a tight knit group that expresses themselves within the blog and use it as a forum. In short blogging can be used in a variety of ways to express oneself and sometimes build a community around the content posted.

I would argue that this is not so true anymore as people have moved to social media as a way to live blog their lives.  Instagram and other platforms have taken the internet by storm and blogging has fallen by the wayside for many teenagers and people in their early twenties.  This makes it hard for bloggers to maintain a solid community that revolves around their posts if they are starting up in 2015.  Other platforms are much more successful in keeping a community if that is the forte of the person generating the content. Blogging can still be good to offer insight into different subjects, but people have turned to other places to get their entertainment.  It's sad because bloggers sometimes have good insight, and perhaps there will be a resurgence of their popularity. For me though; it is not in the foreseeable future because other platforms are doing a better job at reaching people.

The article we read is also out of date and if it was written in 2015 it could be about something completely different. The age of the vlog and other forms of media are upon us and blogging is falling by the wayside, but with the ability to embed these forms of media blogging could make a resurgence as a secondary place to post content to expand a person's audience. It all depends on what today's youth wants to do with their time on the internet.