Blogs are here to stay

Blogs are here to stay

Before blogs, there were personal journals. They were private. You bought yourself a blank book and a pen and you started to write. If you were like most people I know, you stared at that first page for hours, wondering exactly what you should write.

It had to be brilliant. It had to be pithy, witty and wise. It had to be insightful and beautifully written. Otherwise, it didn’t matter what you wrote in the rest of those 300 pages. This first page was your introduction, your hello to the world, your opening act that would set the tone for the rest of the entire journal.

One of two things probably happened: either you never wrote that first sentence at all and that journal stayed empty until you finally gave it to one of your eight-year-old nieces, or you wrote a first sentence, maybe even a page or two.

Then you read what you wrote, decided it was silly, felt uncomfortable or just wasn’t good enough. And you hid that journal back in a drawer somewhere so no one would see how inadequate you were.

It’s the 21st century. Journals are still around, but they’re being replaced by blogs. And blogs are here to stay.