Why blog?

Yesterday, at my friend's New Year's party, I posed a general question: "Does anyone keep a diary?" Of course, immediately after I said it I realized that was the wrong thing to say. "No...do you?! Ha ha, you keep a diary!" followed. After I waited for my incredibly immature friends to get over it, I told them no, I keep a blog, like an online diary. Oops, I used the D-word again. After another five minutes of waiting for them to shut up, I changed the subject. However, this did raise the question, why blog at all? What's the point? If a blog is for you, why even publish it so others can read it?

Well, for me, it was because I always wanted to make a website, but I always changed my mind on what I wanted the theme of the site to be after about three hours of maintaining it. (Seriously.) Then after reading Pearls Before Swine I was inspired by Goat's blog. I decided to keep one of my own. And it's great! Since it's for me, I don't have to worry about what other people think, but I publish it so when people start reading it I'll get their (hopefully constructive) input in their comments. And since it's to publish whatever's on your mind at the time, you don't have to worry about keeping with one theme. (Like computers or games or anything like that.) Plus, no one teases you about keeping a blog (except my incredibly immature friends.) Leave comments and tell me why you blog!