There are many reasons why one may blog and one blogger could have more than one reason for blogging. Examining the larger categories of blogs provides some insight into why people blog.

Some bloggers want to blog about the details of their everyday lives usually to inspire, educate or lend humor to the reader.

A blogger may have a specialized area of knowledge, such as website design, and may desire to share that knowledge with others.

The most popular blogs cover news stories and allow readers to comment on the news.

Students can blog to record educational activities, practice writing skills and share knowledge with others.

Christian blogs in particular have come into prominence in the last year. Blogs allow discussion of religious topics and can offer readers prayers, devotionals and Bible studies all in a comfortable, interactive atmosphere.

Business owners, small and large, can benefit from blogging to allow their customers or clients to keep current with company happenings and latest products.

There are many reasons for blogging and those reasons may evolve over time for the individual blogger.

The existence of categories on a blog provides the blogger with the opportunity to blog for several different reasons on one blog. Overlap in reasons for blogging and subsequently types of blogs seem to be the rule rather than the exception. Blogging has become an important medium of communication and future developments should prove exciting.

By Victoria Carrington, M.D.

that should give you some ideas why do people blog...

actually it could be a very very long topic to talk about.

but erm that should be enough....