Who blogs? Everyone! What are they blogging about? Everything! Why do they blog? Not so easy to answer! The reason the last question doesn’t have a straight-forward answer is because there are numerous reasons why we blog. The five most commonly studied motivational factors for blogging are: to create a journal that documents your life; to provide commentary and opinions; to express deeply felt emotions; to articulate ideas through writing; and to form and maintain community forums. Passing time, entertainment, and medium appeal were also discovered while conducting research on blogging motivators. As you might expect, one’s personality plays a very active role in blogging. My paper will discuss the personality types that tend to forecast blogging behavior. The “Big Five” as researchers like to refer to them as are: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. The paper will also briefly skim the role gender plays in blogging in an attempt to answer the following question: What can we see through the lens of blogging?
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