The Computer Zone

I thought it’d be fun to share with you guys some of the reasons I started blogging. Now, I’m a fairly recent contestant in the blogosphere. I started back in August and haven’t looked back since. I’ve made a number of errors, I’d change a number of things but I must say its been a fun ride so far. Here are ten reason why I started blogging.

1. I was bored at work
   Over the summer I worked at Rogers Media and I was completely bored out of my skull. There were days where I wouldn’t have anything to do, so instead of just sitting around I decided to be more productive and do something
2. I wanted to learn something
   This may sound a little weird but I actually started blogging because I wanted to learn PHP and HTML. I though it’d be good to code my own blog.
3. I wanted to be heard
   This is probably the biggest reason why I started blogging. I had things to say and I wanted people to hear it While I’m not sure if this has happened I know a few people have heard me.
4. I wanted to make money
   While I hadn’t blogged before I was on the internet a lot and I had heard that a few people were making a lot of money doing this. Being a university student, I’m always looking for different ways to make money so I thought I’d try.
5. My friend told me to
   My friend Alex was probably the most influential person in my early blogging months. He was the one that told me about wordpress and he was also the one that said I should learn PHP and such. If it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t be blogging.
6. I’m a computer nerd
   I enjoy being on my computer. I like surfing the web, writing computer programs and playing games. Blogging was just an extension of what I already did so it was fun.
7. Proving I’m an expert
   While this may sound a little conceited my first blog was a blog about the C Programming language. I wanted to prove that I knew my stuff and it was a great indicator of how much I actually know. Even with this blog I enjoy showing that I do know a little about blogging.
8. To inflate my ego
   Comments are awesome. Every time I get a comment my face lights up and I’m happy. This may sound a little loserish but it’s true. Blogging makes me feel good because I see that people are reading my stuff and some even like it
9. To get connected
   Before I started blogging I was reading a lot of blogs and I thought that starting my own was definitely a good way to get connected in the blogosphere. I was certainly right on that point.
10. To write lists like this
    Honestly, this has been my dream To write 10 lists and share them with the world. Seriously, I just couldn’t think of a 10th reason.

Those are the reasons why I started blogging and I’d really like to hear why you started. What were the main reasons why you started blogging?

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