Why blog? Why take your thoughts, feelings, sympathies, and paste it all in big bold lettering on an ever-expanding, untouchable network that spans the globe? Well, to start, it's certainly not a journal. The Internet is not privacy. With enough will, anyone can find anything on the Internet. So if blogging is an imperfect journal, then why?
There's some trait to blogging, some glorious loophole. One can express radical opinions, passionate feelings, much of whatever they like and give whoever they want a window to look at these thoughts. In the back of each blogger's mind lurks that desire for someone to look into a blog of theirs and find an intellectual, witty, interesting person. Or maybe a deeper, more passionate person. Or at least, that is what I see. In my past of blogging, I've always wished to entice those around me to take a look into my thoughts. I've always felt, and perhaps I'm conceited for it, that people would find there's just something else to me in here. I can tell the world what I like, what I think, what I feel, and experience none of the burning shame of standing against the tidal wave of doubt. In essence, I see blogging, and very much all forms of communication via the Internet, a removal of body language from conversation.
A removal of body language indeed suggests the removal of the body itself. Self-consciousness begins with appearance, and all that may be undercut with such a medium fueled entirely by intellect. The power of the mind reigns over that of the body, the Internet is the weaker body/greater mind's domain. This brings me to why I blog. Everyone may find themselves to be self-conscious at times. But to me, the Internet, and blogging with it, helps me conquer that. Truly, the World Wide Web is still an extravagant set of smoke and mirrors, but I feel that I find my real self here. The one with a voice, a mind, an opinion. I blog to overcome my least-favorite personal trait, self-consciousness.
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I like what you have here :)
I'm not a deep, intellectual blogger, and I must say I agree with some of the things you said like how we sort of wish readers would "find an intellectual, witty, interesting person" and what not, because I think like that alot of the times, too. But if readers think otherwise, you can just shrug and say "Whatever."
So, I guess blogging's like a safer route to express myself.
You don't have to be ready to fight back in arguments right as you show your opinions and you get to organize that train of thought as you write them (or type them) out.