RanDoM BlOggie QuEsTiOn

Sometimes when i feel like blogging but have nothing much and exciting to blog about, i won't blog.

Someone made a passing comment that she won't blog much since she doesn't feel humourous enough on that day.

So that led me to think... does my blog post have to be entertaining?

So the blog serves a give and take relationship. To the blogger, blogging would allow his/her to indulge in narcissistic exhibitionism (this is a term used a a certain GP paper...). To the reader of the blog, the blog entries, then, would be entertaining. In short, you entertain my self-indulgence, and i entertain you as well. You offer me something, and i offer you something in return too.

Then this would beg the question... how much do i actually have to entertain you, the reader of this blog?

I thought the blog's about me (hopefully, you'll be seeing my God rather than just me alone.)(i'm referring to 'me' in the general sense anyway), so i blog when i feel like, not when i feel as if i have something to entertain you about.

Or is entertaining you linked to some other more important goals i have in mind, for example, my wish to portray myself as someone humourous and entertaining and fun-loving (i repeat, this is just an example... i'm still in the slipping quietly to the side kind of mood)?

The main tension lies in this really fundamental question: what are the functions of this blog?

I would love to start quoting the names of famous researchers and their findings like how i quote the Fallers quy in my GP essay for his writings on the functions of the family. But, well, too bad, i haven't actually read any readings regarding blogging. Firstly since it's a fairly new medium which has been discussed more for its content than for its functions. Secondly, i have absolutely no intention of doing a GP essay about blogs (hopefully i wouldn't have to make such an endeavour for the actual A level paper), so i haven't been reading about it anyway. Therefore, it's really up to you if you want to ponder upon the reasons for why people keep personal blogs.

My work now then, is to complete my maths paper, from which i have deviated badly from.

Heh.

=)