Why we blog

an interesting internal workshop we had today was about social media and blogging played a major role in it. many things were discussed about the advantage of blogging to promote yourself, company etc.. but none of it completely made sense to me on the question of "Why we blog?"  I feel many people are trying to force themselves to blogging for all the wrong reasons. for example, blogging only to create a web presence and to build an image or blogging to promote the company that you work for.


I feel we should blog for ourselves, one of my mentors (Hasith Yaggahavita - http://blog.hasith.net/) has described in his blog that "Generally I write here to structure my own thinking". I feel that's a very good reason to blog (Actually I think that's what got me started blogging really). You need to understand that blogger is a great tool that allow you to write what's on your mind clearly, and for me, more I write or talk about a given subject, more clearer it gets. Hence, I am fully agreement with Hasith, and I blog for myself and to make the subject I write about  more clear to me. Of course others are more than welcome to voice their own ideas and contribute by commenting and challenging my views :)