Blogging Over The World

Blogging seems to be taking over the world. Since starting in the 90's, blogging has grown in popularity for people who write as well as reads them. Blogging lets us write, discuss, tell our stories and voice our opinions, and we're making full use of it. It's become a worldwide trend to read and write blogs. It began as a simple way to write, share and discuss topics of interests and views. Now it's become a popular hobby and, for some, a money source. There are now thousands of blogs with thousands of readers on multiple blogging sites, as well as a lot of companies paying to be advertised on these blogs. Here's a list and breakdown of the best and most popular blogging websites:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/best-free-blogging-sites/

Luckily Blogger is on the list. Woop woop! Hopefully this is good news for me and my blog. Fingers crossed!

So, why has blogging become a trending hobby?
In all honesty, I know my blog isn't the best blog. I won't ever claim to be great at blogging or writing. I have many skills and I have things I'm proud of, but blogging and my blog isn't one of them. That doesn't deter me from wanting to blog though. I suppose that's one of the appeals to blogging. You don't have to be a great writer or anything. All you need is a device to type your posts and internet to upload your blogs. Both of which most people have thanks to modern day and the advancement of technology.

Like I said, there are thousands of blogs out there all over the internet. They can be accessed by millions of people from all over the world. It's one of the amazing things about blogging. Even if you don't have a target audience, your audience is basically the whole world. Anyone with internet access can stumble upon your blog page or even just one post. They can read one or follow every post your write. They can be young or old, male or female, from anywhere around the world. Depending on how you view it, it can be an amazingly great thing or an amazingly scary thing. But we write for people to read right? So for bloggers this is an amazingly great thing!

If you follow me on twitter (if you're interest then my account is this one: https://twitter.com/KwaiLin22) then you might have seen me tweeting about a particular blog I've been reading. The writer is an old school friend of mine. I've known her since I was 4 because we've been friends and have gone to the same Primary and High schools. I don't recommend her blog because of this. I'm not the type of person to say good things for the sake of saying it. I genuinely think this blog is a good read. She's a good example of why I like blogs. Her perspective and style is great. She's a professional writer and you can really see that in her posts. You also get a sense of her personality. She's a very bright girl; in both sense of the word. She's smart and very upbeat. Her posts are clever, interesting and insightful. When she isn't talking about happy things, she stills shines a light of positivity on negative topics. Not in a corny way or anything. In a realistic, insightful way. Which is quite refreshing. If you want to see what I mean, click on the link below. I honestly think it's worth a read. I particularly find her posts about journalism quite interesting.

http://absolutelylucy.wordpress.com/

I guess Lucy blogs because she loves to write. Hence her following journalism. Also, because it's obviously something she's talented in. For me, blogging isn't so much about talent or career. While I do find it helps me to practice and develop my writing skills I think I mostly do it because it allows me to organise and convey my thoughts, share my experiences and knowledge, and it provides a sense of escapism. It helps me to focus on specifics; distracting my mind from other matters or helping me to block out everything and really analyse and talk about what's been going through my mind.

For a lot of people, I think blogging is a hobby. It's a hobby that some people get and others just don't. Some of you have been amazing and have 'got' my views and where I'm coming from, or at least have read and tried to see it from my point of view. My family haven't read my blogs but they've said they don't know why I feel I need to write and put everything on the internet for any Tom, Dick or Harry to see. I get their point. I can't really explain why. Why can't I just write a private diary or journal? I'm not engaging with you per say. I know you're out there reading and I get feedback, but I'm never talking with you one-on one. Nor am I writing to myself. So what's the point? It does sound a bit strange, doesn't it? But in saying all of this, why not write on the internet for all to see? I'm not hurting anyone. I'm not disclosing personal information that will harm me either (at least I hope nothing I have or will write will be held against me in the future). It might be a generation gap problem. Although I know a lot of older people who blog, twitter, facebook and  are active on other social media websites. So maybe it's just a different ways of thinking problem. I'm not sure.

Either way, it's unarguable that blogging is a trending social media. It's crazy how big it's become. Do you know something else that's crazy? Blogging has not only expanded, but it has also evolved and modernised further. From writing with a pen and paper to blogging, and now we have vlogging. Ever heard of it? It's video blogging. It's also one of the biggest growing trends. It's taken blogging to a whole new level. It's trending worldwide and not only has it led to jobs but it's become a job. Check this link out:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/24726895

It's mental, isn't it? Again, depending on how you view it, it can be seen as amazingly great or amazingly scary. Society's growing, evolving and modernising, and things will keep changing. Expressing oneself has become something that more and more people want to do. People want to be heard. People want to express themselves and have people acknowledge or/and get a reaction from others. This is how blogging and vlogging have come about. They're easy, accessible means to exactly that. There are of course some backlash and problems developing and growing because of this advancement, but that's another story and will be followed up on another post. For now, I want to concentrate on the positivity of blogging and how it's taking over the world by storm. Blogging over the world, if you will. (Bad joke, sorry).