What Is the Point of Blogging?
One of my good mates recently asked me what the point of a blog was and why would someone want to read about what I am doing. It was a very good question and one that took me a while to think of an answer. I mean, what is the point of this? Why do you care?
I have been trying to get him to start a blog of his own for the past few months. He is passionate about old Aussie muscle cars and has successfully brought, sold and made a profit on pre 1980 Ford Falcons over the past 5 years.
He is an average guy, with a good job and wage, but has made an absolute fortune out of buying and selling cars in his spare time. He has owned 28 cars in the past 5 years and I thought it would be a good idea for him to blog about his current projects, experiences and thoughts on the subject.
He started with old pieces of junk and only making a few hundred dollars profit here and there, and now has worked his way up to $60,000 cars – with no loans and debt attached to it. Whatever he manages to get his hands on, you are guaranteed that his next car will be even better.
I told him he should start a blog about what he does. He could share his thoughts with other likeminded people, or people who are currently attempting to do the same thing for themselves.
He isn’t very technical minded when it comes to websites and computers in general, so he is struggling to see how this could benefit him and not be a waste of time. I offered to build the site and set it up for him so all he would have to do is blog every now and then.
Everyone has their own interests, whether it be cars or computers, fashion or sport. There is always going to be someone else who is interested in the same thing you are and will at some stage want to know more.
Every internet user relies on someone else to give them the information they are searching for – the blogger, the website builder, the reporter, the guy who created the wiki entry, etc. They are all contributors to the world wide web.
Without these contributors there would be no internet. These users rely on us in the same way that we rely on them for traffic.
So my answer to “what is the point of blogging” was “to share experiences and provoke thought, and hopefully someone will learn a thing or two. You might even learn from the people who visit your blog.”
Fairly simple answer- though that is my reason for blogging. What’s yours?
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