Blog-O-Sphere

Just a few days ago, a fellow blogger was talking to me. He said ‘I don’t think our Blogs are going to survive after we complete our BE’. I had no reply, to some extend he was true! But I never really wanted him to be true. Blogging has been such a great fun all this while.

Now as for the Blogs going dead thing, I feel if someone has started a blog for love of writing, it’ll never die. If you’ve started on the grounds that nowadays everyone has a blog, so it’s kinda cool to have my own blog, then sooner someday the writing passion will vanish. Amitabh has one, Aamir has one, Shobha De has one, so it’ll be cool for me to have one. Naah, doesn’t work for too long. There’s a wave of seasoned bloggers who have joined Blogger for the fame of it, sooner someday they'll cease to write.

Blogosphere has given me great posts to read. Got to know people and their views better. Hear what they want to talk about. Wonderful and healthy (Should I use this..) debates between people, so many great stories, some wonderful poems and much more. More importantly it has been an effective medium to express what I want to say, or in general what I feel about things.

Sometimes I've wandered across some unknown blogs which had some pretty good writings too. A few regular bloggers having about 500+ followers and update daily to some bloggers who have total of 3 posts in a complete year. I find famous blogs mostly boring. If you’re updating your blog too often, you can’t maintain quality throughout. Often people who update once a month sometimes come up with such great blogs that they seem totally worth the wait.

Some more kind of bloggers. Commercial bloggers, with loads of advertisements, tons of pop-ups and very large loading time, I never read those blogs until absolutely essential. When a hobby becomes a business, it loses its charm. Never will I even think of putting advertisements on blog which give me a penny for every visitor to the site. One more trend has started, publicity of institutes through blogs. Mainly coaching classes or the people who help with students completing their projects and stuff. Why pay for a website when you can do the same thing for free through a blog.

Finally, the last type of bloggers, the underground bloggers. There are few people I know who do not wish to publicize their blogs, so do not wish to be listed on the blogroll. These are the ones mostly writing controversial, unbiased, confidential stuff. I like reading them because they are so close to reality. No faking, no fancy language, just pure feelings about what they feel. I’m thankful to those bloggers too for wonderful posts.

Just the one things I noticed about many blogs which I’ve read. People crib a lot about anything and everything below the sun. Many posts are about complains and what’s wrong with the world rather than what’s good. Maybe that should change a bit. Few years down the line, maybe we'll be busy, maybe we won't have time reading each other's post, the comments may reduce….but we'll continue to blog.