by Ahmad Sadli

Created on: March 20, 2009   Last Updated: August 16, 2009

There are variety of reasons that made people blog. For starters blog is almost a free medium to everybody. Blog is not meant only for Pulitzer aspirants or JK Rowling wanna be. There is no specific rules when it comes to blog. Anybody who could write and have internet may blog. That's why it is easy for people to blog.

Blog in itself is a unique culture. Nowadays it is perceived as a hip thing to own a blog and actively blogging. Just look around and we could see that just about everybody is blogging. There is a feeling of something like

"I don't want to be left behind!" Blog is really the hot thing among Internet users. Everyday the number of blogger has increased. Many people want to join the bandwagon of having a blog. Having a blog simply means you are a normal person. No blog means you are a cave man! So no wonder blog has become the fastest growing application of Internet other than e-mail and normal website.

Actually, there are people who blog out of curiosity. They are apparently had no clue or reason at all to start a blog. They could just simply blog by chance. All of a sudden, they become addicted to blog when they found many benefits and enjoyment out of blogging.

The fact is, there are a large number of professional blogger out there. Through blog they ply their trade. They do blog for a really good cause and motivation. In this case it is safe to say that they simply blog for the sake of money. The reasons that they write and maintain a great blog are money. The better the blog get ranked among Google or Yahoo, the higher chances for them to gain money. That's why we called them professional blogger. They blog and monetized the blog.

Professionalism aside, blog actually has a place for emotional thing. Blog is really a great, if not wonderful place to keep your memory of good things. Blog could act as an archives of data and personal historic facts. Peoples could upload pictures, write an emotional testimony, log of great journeys and love memory, anything at all. This data will be kept in a server that designed to make it as a safe data which you could recall them back whenever you feel like to do.

Blog has also been used to champion a cause or to convey any great messages. It could be used to reach voters for example. Debates, discussion, expressing opinion, all of this could be done through blog.

For some, writing a blog could be therapeutic way of handling sadness or coping with tragedy. Believe it or not, you could actually write

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