Popular media likes to play up the concept of blogs and "blogging."
Like, "ANYONE can spread their message! Blogging is a grassroots revolution in news making and the spread of ideas, it fuels globalization!" That's a made up quote, but I don't really feel like it's an exaggeration of what the news channels and books about blogging are actually saying.
They haven't noticed, or simply ignore the fact that one needs a massive reader base to get their "message" out. Be it everyday ramblings about their life, political views, general news, celebrity gossip, or information on the way someone lives their life (like a soldier's wife's blog, or someone studying overseas). They have to update often and well, to retain their reader base
The MAJORITY of "bloggers" are people like me. People with little to no readers regardless of content. It becomes more and more difficult everyday. Especially for someone like me, specifically, because I really don't have anything interesting to say. I don't write about interesting things, and I don't lead an especially interesting life. I could write about all of my problems, and the drama that surrounds me every day. But that would not only demoralize my character, but would also dwarf the gravity of these problems. "Here is a painful memory, and/or event. I'd like to talk about it, but only with strangers. I'm also going to write about it... Writing it will make you able to empathize with my specific problem, even though you don't know me, or the people around me." But I lead such a fortunate life that writing about my "problems" would make me hate myself!
I understand that a lot of people don't have people to talk to, and need an outlet for their issues, but I do have people to talk to, and it undermines the friendships I hold dear.
In essence, a blog, for people like me, is really about jotting things down. You're bored and you have something you'd like to say, or you're feeling creative and need an outlet. Or something bizarre happened (or you have a "bizarre" thought), but you can't call anyone because it's incredibly late and you can't wake them up for something so silly and insignificant. But it HAS to be said!
So this is for people like me, who lead uninteresting, but otherwise good lives, and who blog because they simply can.
