Musings of a Blogger

Oh! here I am at last QWERTYing away my first blog. I've although written comments on a few Blog posts earlier, this is my first publication. Let me start by dealing with the meaning of my title; "MUSINGS OF A BLOGGER"

Musings = A period of thinking carefully & of course deliberately too (Completed by telling people about it).

Blogger =  A person giving out record of his experience, opinion on a website through internet.

Here, I must ponder a little on why do people BLOG! It is the nature of humans to feel important, the need to be heard is the driving force for blogs. This may not be the only aim but it certainly is the basic and common trigger for blogs. It in someway is like maintaining a diary for few addicted bloggers. But the importance of blogging will certainly reduce with availability of other avenues for people to express, like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Google Buzz, Foursquare, good old Orkut etc., Every experience is unique in it's own way and reactions/feelings to any given situation with the given variables & circumstances are also one of their kind. People would like to share these in various forms, blogging is one of THOSE.

Now, let us see what are those "THOSE",

 - Sharing with a colleague at work place, provided the mental and personal wavelengths match!

 - Discuss with your friend, I mean close enough to talk any rubbish.

 - Just let ought a sign of sigh on Twitter, as the word limit doesn't allow you the lavish expression of thoughts.

 - Leave a post on the Facebook wall, with friend list including all (Family, Friends, Colleagues, Foes).

 - Join a political or social service organisation and vent out your ideas through various means on hapless and helpless civilians.

 - Write a letter(I miss that simple document these days) to a person who is willing to receive that crap and reply with equal patience.

 - Letter or email again to any newspaper column, not being sure of it's fate of publishing.

 - Print pamphlets, posters to distribute among people, very rare act of desperation to be heard!!!   

 - Publish or rather buy a whole page of a popular newspaper, not uncommon these days as many sponsored acts of shamelessness getting official support of political parties.

 - BLOGGING is one of THOSE... with the following advantages:-

    + We can type any lenght.

    + Publish it to prowl on hapless netizens instantaneously.

    + Write on what ever we want whenever & wherever we desire...

    + It's not charging you anything.

 - The list of THOSE(both the means to fulfill the need to be heard and advantages of blogging)  can continue limited to one's imagination only........

I, for my part too is writing this to get out of my boredom... or else what can explain this insomniac act of typing(QWERTYing) a silly blog at 4am in the morning in Africa!!!!

Having said that, it doesn't absolve the responsibility of the readers and my right to some decent return comments....