While thinking of an idea for this blog, I had the thought “Well, what if I just wrote about writing blogs themselves?” I know, crazy concept. I think it sounds interesting, though. The whole idea around a blog itself is kind of funny. You rant on about something you feel mildly or very passionate about for a few paragraphs, and then send it out online for everyone to see.
Not sure about anyone else, but the way I usually write blogs is by using whatever is on my mind that day. Like for my last blog when I wrote about animation, I was just thinking about rewatching an animated film. I’m also passionate about the medium, so I thought it fitting to inject it into my writing. For this blog, I already knew I wanted to write it today, so it’s been on my mind the whole day. So I guess that’s why I just decided to write about blogs? I’m not sure how other people do it, but I’m guessing that’s a fairly common way.
Unfortunately, blogs are a dying breed. I can’t remember the last time I’ve genuinely read a blog, besides the ones on the 90.7 website. Blogs used to be the thing back in the day - before my day, really. The internet was run by text and pictures, with some low quality videos here and there back in the early 2000’s. As time went on, however, video sharing websites became popular, and instead of writing everything on blogs, people instead made VLOGS. Blog with a V! These were way more entertaining, and more of a documentation of a day or two of someone’s life.
It’s a bit tough to even find blogs anymore. But at this point, who would even read them? Well, I guess you might, since you’re reading this, but I mean who REALLY is reading blogs in this day and age? We have instant content at our fingertips, with apps like Tiktok and Instagram. People rant on these things the same way they would in blogs, just in video form. So while blogs may be an outdated format, they absolutely influenced today’s way of getting info from random people.
Though, in a way, blogs are still very present on social media such as Twitter - that forsaken site. That place is just people complaining and going on about random stuff, which is pretty similar to blogging, just without the professionalism and polish of a blog. It’s mostly just arguing over there so I wouldn’t use it as a source of reading blogs.
After some research, there are still sites for blogging! They aren’t popular, but they still have active users. Blogger.com is a tool just for making blogs, as well as WordPress, Weebly, and Wix. These are basically just website builders. Tumblr is a pretty popular spot online to make microblogs and share pictures and videos, usually for a younger adult audience. So yes, blogging has a little community who still love the art of it. I think that’s pretty nice, though unfortunate that such a big community has shrunken to this small of a size. At least it lives on in other forms.
