Do Blogs Make Feel Something Else?

Having opened a blog is proving an excellent method to write in English providing you have time, indeed. I don’t think I would have written all I wrote these weeks if I had only my computer or even worse, an old-fashioned paper notebook. I wonder why is this. What makes a blog different in inducing to writers some sort of stimulation? In short I think the answer is just one word: PUBLICATION. When we write in a blog we know that text is going to be ‘published’. So what? you may say. Well, let’s be honest and try to find out an explanation. Did you see someone who just by chance appeared on TV for a fraction of a second on the far background? Or perhaps his/her name was incidentally mentioned in a newspaper? How his/her face looked like? His/her face looked with an ear to ear smile or with a not well dissimulated satisfaction. Why is this? Because getting notorious is rewarding for many people even in cases which notoriety might be very small and ephemeral.

If my reasoning makes sense, when you write in your blog you know intellectually your text is going to be read only by a very few number of readers. BUT emotionally (should I say ‘psychologically’?) you get the feeling that your text is on ‘the net’, which means everywhere and therefore it is ‘published’. Some little part of yourself moved from being private (anonymity) to being public (notoriety).

Of course, some people will agree, some will disagree. Don’t take my speculation seriously. It is just an excuse that enabled me to write in English. I wanted to make some practice in a let’s say formal style.

Oh!, I forgot saying that in case you decided to vote my ‘thesis’ I will count first votes favourable. Regarding the ‘others’ (like in the TV series, LOST) they will be qualified as dangerous, nasty and not deserving to be taken into consideration. The thing I love most is… justice, isn't it?