BLOGGS................fantastic!

[hebe]

I think people blog for many different reasons, not all of them to do with being read or having the need to share publicly. For example, I have a couple of friends who use their private blogs to keep track of job applications and career planning - they find it gives a flexible platform for writing and storing information that can be easily accessed wherever they are. Another uses hers to store recipes. I'm toying with the idea of organising some of my favourite internet pages as private links on mine, so that they're readily available when I'm on a different pc, or my phone.

I did toy with keeping my blog entirely private, but have settled on sharing the address here and on my facebook profile, nowhere else at the moment.

[lph]

I don't blog, but I do use my Facebook page a bit like a blog, I publish photos, random thoughts, status updates I find amusing or interesting, and don't necessarily expect much feedback. I do consider that other people will be reading it, though, so it's not a private diary, and if I never received any feedback at all I'd probably stop.

But I really don't see any big difference between blogging, Facebook and writing here on TE. Many threads here are people posting about their day or personal experiences, big or small, either to commiserate with someone else but often just to share an experience. And that's to what many people would consider "total strangers". By comparison Facebook or blogging to a handful of known friends is an intimate chat.