purpose of blogging

Today in class we discussed the purpose of blogging. Opinions aside, this is what I feel is the purpose of blogging:

Blogging is an attempt to communicate. In today's market, there are a variety of ways that an individual can express their self and communicate with the outside world. Blogging is a way to communicate, without interruption, a single or stream of thoughts or ideas to an audience that cares enough to at least read what you have written, without being obligated to continue reading/ listening by social formalities.

Within the blogosphere, social cordialities, for better or for worse, take a back seat to the transfer of information. While this unfortunately develops individuals into malformed social entities, until then, it does hold the capacity for unadulterated communication, for whatever purpose one would have to communicate.

Within the world of communication, people convey thoughts, emotions and ideas for both good and bad reasons. Recognizing blogging as a medium/ method allows us to then remove the negative connotations from blogging to view it in proper light. In other words, before we negatively evaluate blogs, we should perhaps first take into consideration the general stereotype of bloggers by whom's blogs we are judging the great blogosphere that is.

Source aside, I do believe that blogging both has its advantages, as listed above, as well as its disadvantages, which I believe to still be within the bounds of disadvantage that a book must overcome. As long as we as a society can find value in literature, I believe, if viewed properly, we can also find great value in blogs.

The question now is, what is proper social etiquette in the great world of blog.