Blogging is a total waste of time!

Or is it?

Why do people feel compelled to pour their hearts out online to God knows who?

Here is a little blip about why people blog

What I think sometimes, is people use a blog, like there own personal newspaper column, they feel it gives them a chance to get their opinion "out there" to wherever.

Some people just have nothing better to do.

Some people have a ton of stuff to do, but, still feel compelled to take a few not so extra moments to write a little blurb about their life.

I have to say, I have about 5 blogs that people know I have, and a few, that are somewhat anonymous. Why would i have that many blogs?

Mostly, I blog, on occasion, instead of going to therapy! Or instead of eating chocolate cake. (which someone brought to me and I'm the only person who's been eating it!)

Probably the main reason I blog is because I have more thoughts in one hour than most people have in a month. Not just totally random thoughts, actually stuff that people have "requested" that I look into for them.

Then, why do I have different blogs? Because I have completely different sets of friends and acquaintances, very few people actually get to see all the facets of my personality.

So, the parents who want to know "how do you do what you do?" i send them to my "homeschool mom" blog, then for the teenagers that tell me I'm the "coolest mom ever, what about this?" i send them to the blog that addresses their age and stage, etc. I've had doctors ask me various questions about how I learned what I've learned, so I send them to a little bit different styled blog.

I have limited "social" time, so even if I do go somewhere, I have to keep up with a lot of little ones, so it's easier to say, "check my blog", when someone wants a detailed answer.

Do people actually read your blogs?

I wondered the same thing, so I put a little tracker code in a few pages of my blogs and yep, I did have people reading my blogs. That was fun to see who really did follow up on what I was doing.

My overall intentions were to someday make some money off of my blogging. I did some research and found out that it does take some time and effort, but, depending on the personality and the amount of good blogging content, people did make money from their blogs.