Passion and Consistency

"You need these two cores in doing such activity, they are passion and consistency."

To talk about this activity called 'blogging', not everyone knows what it is about. When I first asked this particular interviewee, she answered this question like:

"you mean surfing through the internet?" 

and

"can you explain more about it? Like please explain it in a more easy and humane way." 

Honestly these are not the answers that I hoped for. I thought that everyone already know about this activity because it has been exists on the internet for a long-long time now. Apparently, even blog's existence is already that long, the idea of blogging is still uncommon to the society. People just don't know that there is this a kind of activity where they can write anything about their hobby, experiences, even personal things and share it on the internet, moreover, to make a profit from it. After some few "easy" explanation thrown at her, she started to consider the benefits that we can get from this activity.

 In her opinion, the contents we are writing about in the blog must be something that we really like or passionate about. So, it is really possible to write in a particular blog just for fun sake. She also said that this activity can be very useful if the person doing it really mean what he/she is doing. "We need that kind of seriousness in doing it." she said. She also thinks that by the emergence of 'vlogging', which has been so popular these days, it will not affect the existence and the popularity of blogging. She said that not everyone able to talk in front of the camera, so writing it can be a more 'safe' way to spill out their thought or share their experiences.

Differently to this girl, one of my friend which had an experience in regularly writing a blog, shared his experiences related to this activity.

He had made many blogs for his personal purposes, but in the middle-way of maintaining this routine, he started to lost motivation. It were all ended up outdated and neglected. He said that it is a good and fun thing to do, but one thing to be kept in mind:

"You need these two cores in doing such activity, they are passion and consistency."

With those two things, the readers can usually assumed whether a blog is having an interesting content or not.

In his opinion, the emergence of vlogging can affect the existence of blogging. He said that blogging could be out of fashion. From his exploration on the internet, there are some topics that are rarely can be found on YouTube but plenty in blogs, so blogging activity can be decreasing in number but still have a place among the audiences. Relating to this answer, my other friend also said that she usually only opens blog if it is informative to her and helps her doing her assignments or at least giving her what she is looking for. 

Blogging can be a fun, good, and profitable activity which can be done by all people, but it needs to gain more audiences first. On the other hand, it also need people who are passionate and consistent to make good contents at first, then blogging can be for once again be popular among the society.