Blog

Now that I can call myself a blogger, I begin to think why others blog. Do they start blogging due to boredom. Or is it because they love to blog. Is there any such thing as blog addiction; love to read blogs or love to blog. Addicted in a sense if you don't blog or read blog you feel some part of your life is missing. Well maybe there is such an addiction. By the way how did the word blog get invented, why not jot or scrawl or jib. However it was I bet if check the latest dictionary there surely be an entry on it.
Blog can be a powerful tool too. Imagine a blogger went to a restaurant and complaint about the food or service. I guess if the blog got read the business may not be that good anymore for the place. Or imagine if you see a crime but to scared to admit seeing it, but then cannot stand the pressure of keeping the secret, well blogging maybe an alternative. But again if you can talk about crime in your blog you can also spread lies through your blog. A small lies spiced up with few facts here and there can be credible too. Or perhaps a plain lies got repeated many times over will also most probably gain credibility.
I guess if this is the case one should only blog ethically. That could be hard to do since in this cyberspace anyone can assume any name and any face.