THOUGHTS
I think a lot, I can't help it. You'll find out soon
enough.
(normally when doing something mundane)
Why blog?
A desire to be heard is there. Often used by the young as an outlet to rant and / or voice themselves where they normally wouldn’t be able to. Hence the reason why a lot of people that know about blogs, think they’re for moaning teenagers.
In reality they are very useful for documenting your life whatever you’re doing. From my perspective, I write stuff because I think of stuff. I have ideas, and thoughts on topics, and instead of waiting for a time to express my opinion in a conversation that may not arise, I document it somewhere (blog it) and build and expand the thoughts to make sense of the ramble going on in my head.
I enjoy, capturing my more intellectual moments, and being able to return at any time and relive them. This is the perfect world senario of my blogging. But often it can be a very normal day indeed. When I’ve got some spare time and just want to note what I’ve been doing recently. I don’t document every day, but days when I think about it.
Our lives are already littered with documents covering our lives, till receipts, sent messages in mobile phones, credit card statements…. If needed we could trace our ever step of the day with just those things. But this is an unobvious paper trail, its mostly invisible, and sometimes we might feel that we have very little to show for our lives, so we might start taking photos with our cameras or phones. Displaying and sharing them, recording moments that disappear so quickly. This is the conscious effort we make to record. Blogs are just an extension of that. Those photos can now be global, and attached with text expressing what happened before and after the shot and your feelings at the time.
Sometimes I think we’re all like ants, very uniform and independent, yet trapped in our own independent worlds and on our own paths doing our own thing until we bump into people, and then we say ‘sorry’ or ‘hello’ and maybe a conversation will spin off from that.
Now I’m thinking about it. Maybe the incredible growth of these online conversations, are a spin off from the how society has changed as a whole. People used to catch a train or bus to go to work, meet people and say hello. We used to walk to local shops and chat with the owners, we even used to ‘know’ the owners! … That doesn’t happen anymore. We where our headphones and have private music, we sit in our cars alone and we’d rather text messages on our phones than look up and find a set of eyeballs to talk to.
It is possible that the internet has evolved into this global conversation centre, filled with message boards and forum posts and blogs to make up for the fact that lots of us don’t leave the house as much as we used to, and that we have changed our lives in such a way that we’ve lost the art of vocal conversation?
After all if the media changes, and since the internet and digital technology, no-one will deny that it has, then surely how we converse must change too?
Maybe the world is becoming so big and opinionated that we’re find it harder and harder to be heard and even if we did vocally voice ourselves we get shouted down anyway?
