While I was visiting the doc the other day, we started talking about blogging. He really wanted to know what it was all about. It got me to thinking how blogging has affected me. You few long time readers know I started blogging while dealing a painful breakup. I got so much support and outpouring of concern it was very overwhelming at times. After which, as it often does, life goes on. So, I told the Doc about all the friends I’ve made thru it, how it helped me find the apartment, and so on. He was truly amazed. He couldn’t believe people could do all that thru such a simple medium. Who knows? Maybe he’ll take up blogging. Not about his patients obviously but I’m sure he has a story to tell.
I mention it as it got me to thinking about why people blog. So, if you read this, even if you never commented before, take a moment to tell me why YOU blog (or don’t).
In the meantime, for those of you non-readers, here are a few more pics.
Here I am looking looking extremely excited.
Thanks for the comment you left over on my blog…
I blog because it’s a way for me to express myself and share things that are going on in my life – sometimes I’m funny and sometimes I’m bitching & whining…
First I gotta say I love the last pic. Priceless!
I think like you, I started blogging two years ago to help deal with a breakup. Writing helped me get things off my chest and out of my head. It helped me to get out all the emotions I was feeling.
Since then, my blogging has taken a turn. I started a new blog after some people I knew stumbled across the old one. I figured I needed to start over “fresh” both figuratively and literally.
Thanks for blogging!
Love these three pics, Moby! My favorite has to be #2 (like a modern “human zoo”). 🙂
Well, I started blogging many moons ago because my “fag hag” sister had started blogging and it was a perfect way for the family to keep in touch and up to date. Now I do it as a daily catharsis.
I started blogging just to hang out with Chad Fox – and I met the most wonderful friends though it.
I started blogging as a journal to record some key life transitions that I’m in right now. And to grieve.
The subtitle of my blog is ‘Stuff & Nonesense’ if that tells you anything. I started to blog just for random thoughts and things i came across in everyday life. Now and again, I put more serious things in there and will most likely steer in that vein as time goes on. But I am a lighthearted guy w/a great sense of humor (I think) – so that’s what it is.
I won’t lie – having others read it (let alone comment on – which most do not) is somewhat validating. I’m not looking for acceptance on what I write…I don’t think.
Moby, pic # 2 interests me. is that your normal blogging location? if so, do you spend a lot of time in that cage. if so, is this willingly? does the new domestic help mind dusting the cage, or do they just ignore it?
i don’t blog. no one would read it.
Well, I haven’t blogged for two reasons; one, my writing never comes out the way it sounds in my head, and I’d forever be comparing myself unfavorably to my friends who blog; and two, the things I’d most want to talk about (work, relationship) probably are things best left unblogged about.
hmm… I started blogging just to keep track of what I’d been up too – got tired of saying nothing – now I say read my blog –
My lover & family reads my main one – and sometimes I get embaressed when what I have written becomes a dinner discussion at family gatherings –
Some of my family has started to blog now –
I have other blogs for those things that I want to say – but I need some privacy
ok, get your minds out of my gutter!
The pic of me in a cage was from the SF Leather contest. The contest was in a bar and space was limited. The judges and I were in the dancers cage which is elevated. I’m in one end and the judges were spread out next to me.
I started blogging to help me with my coming out. I had read a few blogs of gay men, gay married men and gay married men who had recently come out. I saw by the comments and by the process of blogging that it seemed to be a medium to express your thoughts, and feelings with a community that I didn’t have easy or ready access to. To that end I’d like to thank you for your comments and anyone else that has commented on my blog.
Moby’s blog is definately one of my all time favorites.
Interesting. Someone just asked me a week or so ago why I blog. And I was going to write a post asking the same question. But now you have beaten me too it.
My blog started out simply as something to add the website even though I didn’t know what the hell to write about. I used to like writing when I was younger, but had stopped a long time ago. The blog got me interested in it again and gave me a way to exercise it.
The reason I continue to blog is because it allows me to discuss things that I can discuss in the circle of people I interact with in everyday life, and it makes me feel like I’m a part of something. Part of a community sort of. And that has greatly helped me with my esteem.
I think I blog because I’m something of an “attention whore”. And because it gets me writing something every day, which is a habit I’m trying harder to cultivate.
I started reading blogs when my lover of 27 1/2 years passed away. I’ve actually been fortunate enough to meet in person a few bloggers. After Moby’s bloggers get-together in San Francisco, I was ready to start my own blog. I set up the account, but never wrote anything because I can’t really write what I want (1. Nobody would ever believe the crap that happens to me . 2. I could get arrested).
I stumbled across one blog and it lead to a few others. I was intrigued and it helped me realize how I wasn’t so alone in the world. I started my own to try it out and have been here ever since. Learned a few good lessons from it, met some good folks too.
I’ve been blogging for almost 8 years. It started as something therapeutic; because I was newly diagnosed with MS and couldn’t do anything else (I was very ill the first year, almost blind and couldn’t walk – today I’m okay). Through the years I’ve met a lot of people, both online and “live” due to my blog. Now I can’t stop writing, I need it. Not as much to get in touch of people, but I’ve become addicted to writing. And before you visit my blog – it’s all in Swedish.