Yes, I said their name. Wordpress. I've used it in my blog. Oh, bad me. I'm damned for all eternity to have said their name on the Internet. I'm going to use it in vain too.
Why do people blog? It's basically journaling on the Net as opposed to paper. There are a zillion different kinds of blogs and blogging out there. Family, memories, parenting, animal, writing, creativity, cooking, political, social etc. etc. etc. You get the idea. Facebook has given me a wealth of topics to blog about usually because someone got my goat or sparked a memory.
I think essentially why we blog or journal is the universal need to be heard. To be "seen." To feel creative. We blog to capture our moment of cleverness, clarity or even genius. In a sense, we blog to immortalize ourselves. We don't want to be forgotten. As long as the Web lasts, we will last. Our thoughts, ideas, recipes, photos etc. are there as though part of our essence is carved in stone with 0s and 1s. Our grandchildren or generations beyond can "know" us.
Digression. The bane of blogging, journaling and often conversation. Back to Wordpress.
I think Wordpress sucks. I think it's a clunky, nasty, decidedly UN-friendly program. And I think at this point in my Technological Life, I'd like to think I'm relatively savvy at negotiating sites. However, if you want to be heard (without a zillion ads cloggin' yo' bloggin') WP is the way most people go. A dear friend of mine (from the dog world) was lamenting WP just the other day and I said, "Why do you use that p.o.s. program?"
I confess, I do have a WP account but I almost always post a link to whatever my latest and greatest is to this one instead of trying to work around that scut-bucket loser of a site.
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