Why do people start a blog?

Diaries in the internet -- the topic I am not very familiar to. The blog for Academic English is the first for me. My group mates’ blogs are almost the only ones that I read for I do not have much enthusiasm to search the internet for various kinds of thoughts. Though, I have some friends that are studying abroad and they write blogs which I read at times.

There are many reasons to start a blog. The strongest for me is -- to communicate with friends who you cannot meet in everyday life. In this case, the peace of writing becomes as an information source about what you think, what happens in your life, what you would like to suggest to your friends, or what you would like to share with them. You even have a possibility to put some pictures in your blog and to visualize your stories -- this is great!

Our teacher says that parents, “cat owners”, or “daysleepers” have started writing blogs (www.engae1.blogspot.com). It might be that people want to share their experience, or receive some advice from others, who have already outlived similar periods of life. They find it, probably, easy to share information in this way -- it does not require many efforts: you just sit at your table in a warm room and communicate with the whole world. Furthermore, it might be that people do not find likely thinking persons around themselves and writing blogs becomes a way to convince oneself that the way a man thinks can be accepted in community. And there are also some who start blogs for class assignments as we do.

Thus, the number of blogs is growing rapidly, and I am not happy about this significant increase. It might make people refuse seeing each other, talking to each other, eventually, do things together. We might forget communication in the real world. We might become used to the screens of computers too much and start being afraid of faces or oral language. I agree, when a person is far from one’s home and there is almost no other way to communicate with one’s relatives, internet is probably the best solution. Still, I find it dangerous for the humanity -- you never know when the border is transgressed.