A comment allows venting from the other side also. This other side is the side of the commentors, who usually are the people which the writer hopes to get the attention of. Even if there is no acknowledgment of such an attention, many writers of any kind and medium still hopes to vent, to express, while many others vent to express to achieve something else like money. Of course, many writers usually do not realize that venting is their purpose or that venting to get something else is their purpose, and not the idea of wanting to try out something cool alone, unless one wants to try out something cool in order to get something else.

[Off-topic a bit]: your site isn’t loading, by the way.

In a word , Sharing data,ideas and emotions with others is a good idea!

It’s interesting that Dareen considers 6 months to be the lifetime for a blog; I wonder if after that, a dying blog closes or if it just slows down and loses momentum? On a similar note, so far your blog seems to be doing good, by the way. Good luck!

One should realize, however, that every person may have a little bit different outlook on things because of their own understanding or experience or both.

Thanks again Alexander. I hope to see more input from you in the future.

That is a very nice breakdown of blogs based on how their writing is based on emotions or what people, the readers, are looking for.

I am guessing many personal blogs fall into the 3rd and 4th categories [50% and 25% categories].

Question: could there be a category of blog that has very informative, or extremely informative information, yet it is not what people are normally, or actively, looking for unless they come across such a blog and realize what is being said or what message is being conveyed?

Also, it may be possible that a blog can switch categories depending on the post. For example, someone searching for a topic may come across a post written on a personal blog related to that specific topic, while at other times if they visit that blog, they might feel it has no relevant information [to the searcher/reader].

Thanks again Svend. This was extremely helpful!

5 % of blogs are very informative having relative information to someone out there who is looking for it at that time
20% of blogs are somewhat informative; meaning it is not something that I would check back to regularly for information
50% of blogs are online journals where people have a group of readers or friends who write articles about their lives so others can get updated daily on their thoughts and events that occur.
25% of blogs are vent blogs where people write about something that bothers them all the time and these are the least visited of all. Unless you find one that you would agree with. I usually never go back to these.

hope that clearly states my opinion on the matter.

Thanks for writing about something we all are thinking.

That is how people should look at blogs if they do not know how to look at blogs; emotional outlets, creative channels, etc. That should help someone figure out what their blog does for them.

Blogging for me is not an emotional outlet. It is a creative channel, it is a challenge that stimulates my brain; and since I quit teaching it is a sharing outlet for me as well.

What you say is something important; that people who vent emotions through their blogs sometimes take it to the extreme. A journal is probably a sincere form of communication between the journal and the person, though online, when other people are involved, a person can still choose to have a journal that is completely open, or a journal that focuses on not only the blogger and the journal, but also the readers. Caution is important, yes, consider the employee mentality that Andrew mentioned above.

You bring up an interesting point that many people judge others based on their views on politics and religion. In those cases, a personal blog or any blog that vents emotions, probably in a negative manner, about religion or politics may be seen as evidence of a character that should not be hired in many corporate environments. A person should be entitled to have different views, but unfortunately, many people are hearing more stories of companies firing people, instead of hiring, because of their blogs.