Origins of the Bloggers by Means of Natural Selection

Here's a question: Why do people blog? (comments and thoughts are always welcome)

Our personal, sometimes deepest, pixellated thoughts are spread out on the table giving readers of all ages, all opinions, all the access in the world to read your dreams and convictions. As a teenager did you want someone to read your diary? I myself didn't want someone to read "Joe likes Jane teehee" or "I want to go to Pluto" (Pluto was a planet, maybe I'll get to that some other time).

So why, now that the internet grants unlimited insight, do you want people to? Why, now that you've become more mature, do you allow people read what you type? Why now?


I have two theories:

1. People subconsciously aim to be liked. People build relationships everyday. Whether talking to people, making fun of them, or ignoring them, relationships are built everyday. Now, why would you continue building a relationship with someone who isn't going to be in your life forever? People tend to push away those closest to them. Your family will be by your side. Will your coworker be there? Sure, if you built a good relationship with him/her. So why let your coworker, or a random person you may never meet, read your blog, but not your father? My answer is that you want to be accepted--you want to build a better relationship. By allowing that random person to have insight in your life, you're opening doors that were once shut. Your doors are usually always open with your parents. People just want attention.


2. People don't feel like paying for a psychologist to analyze their thoughts, so they let random people read about them and jump to their own conclusions. It saves money, and aggravation.

And if you didn't understand the title of this blog, it's a play off of Charles Darwin's book "Origins of the Species by Means of Natural Selection" that advanced the idea of adaptation, thus the advancement from diaries to blogs.