The first question was one of those classic ones: How many bloggers are there?

The key to remember with this story is that a blog is just a tool. There’s nothing special about it, no requirements for any particular features or capabilities. Common usage has it be diary-like and allow comments from readers to be included, but they’re not required and there’s no group that determines if something is or isn’t a blog. This means that it’s basically impossible to estimate how many blogs or bloggers are out there, unfortunately.

However, if we constrain ourselves to sites that have constantly-added narrative content and do allow user feedback, we’re still in the millions of blogs, people ranging from pre-teens to senior citizens, with the bulk of bloggers in their late teens to 50 or thereabouts.

The next question that popped up, and even popped up on comments in Facebook, was Why do People Blog?

In terms of why people blog, well, my belief is that it’s to have a voice, however small. To think that just like the people who write those fancy opinion columns for The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, you too can share your thoughts, vent, and complain to the public at large. Having said that, there are lots of really smart bloggers who have interesting perspectives on the news, politics, sports, business, etc., people who wouldn’t otherwise be heard in mainstream media.

That’s why I read blogs, about 15/daily, and that’s why I write my own blogs too. Sometimes I’ll write something and never get a response from anyone, but other times I’ll write about something, and it’ll garner dozens of comments from other people, readers who share perspectives I never knew.

The last question that I received that could go along with this topic was, What about privacy? Isn’t that an important issue?

You’re right to talk about privacy/identity and blogging too. That’s a serious issue. Thats why I never share any personal information, and contacting is only done through a form on my webpage.  Not direct email.

Interesting topic eh? Thanks for the questions and suggestions! Now how about you, how would you answer those very questions?

• How many bloggers are there?
• Why do people blog?
• What about privacy while blogging?

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It all started with one of those questions.  You know, the question.  Alright, not the question, but a question; “why does it seem the bad boys always get the girls?”, which could be better translated to “Why are girls attracted to the rough bad boy type?”.  I got all kinds of input on this subject, but not a lot that I care to share in a “G Rated” environment.  My input ranges equally almost from male to female, so lets see where this goes.  These are opinions of other people, and I’m trying to understand them.  Lets try to understand together.  In fact, everything is simple (or so I’m told).

Good guys like to dress well.  They do not have confidence in themselves, and are trying to compensate for that through a costume.  Self-assured men (i.e. the bad boy?) feel equally good in any clothing, be it a sports suit, jeans or anything else. They are interesting in any clothing. They do not need to prove anything around. They have already proved everything. – Not really sure where that one was going, but its one to put in here.  You would think that a well dressed individual would certainly stand out.  And apparently they do, as they send out an “I’m compensating for something.”.

Good guys are afraid to make decisions. They want you to decide where you go tonight. And not because they value your opinion. They are just trying to shift responsibility on you. They have such a bad habit – to shift responsibility.  Bad guys can make mistakes, they even may offend you, but they will not hide behind you. – This one I don’t agree with at all.  I would say that “the good guy” is probably more interested in the girl.  Making sure they were doing what she wanted to do.  But hey.  Every girl is different right?

Good guys like being with you when you are well. They have a property to go aside, as soon as there are troubles, even minor. They turn to other topics. They do not even try to help you. They will leave without any explanations. What is it? Good guys just do not burden other people’s problems on themselves, even if they are yours. They are cautious. After all, good guys do not know how to fight. And they go aside when you are in troubles. And appear again, when all have established. There is no guarantee that bad guy will help you. But he will definitely try. And there is nothing special here. He just likes feeling like a hero. – I don’t know what to even say to this one.  I would see the guy that is not interested, and not trying to help as the bad guy… and to that I would also add, as a guy, I will never understand women.

Good guys are easily influenced. Grandma, Aunts, Mom, Dad, best friends and so on and so forth. What does it mean for you? Just if some of his precious family does not like you, your chances are zero. And then, even if you manage to withdraw him from this influence through tremendous efforts, who knows whom he wants to hide behind next time? If someone from a bad guy’s family does not like you, he will love you even stronger. There is nothing special here too! He will just love you against other people’s opinion. He loves the process of overcoming difficulties. – Guys, we’re gonna have to stand up to this one on our own.  I don’t thing this is a good/bad guy issue either one.  This comes down to one thing.  If you truly care for someone (like,love, whatever), you won’t care what others think about your relationship, SO LONG as your significant other isn’t doing things you don’t agree with.

Good guys like educating you and want to change you. They read many books and consider their duty to inform you about this. It happens that sometimes they even write lyrics (half white). And read, read, read them for you. They harass you with grind. And you want to close your ears not to hear them, close your eyes not to see them and run, run from them, as far as possible. – Again with this one, if you truly care for someone (like,love, whatever), you will probably like them just the way they are.

Favorite exercise of good guys – reflection on future. You also have a vague chance to be with him in his future. Definitely, this not will be soon or easy, and only if you manage to close eyes on his endless doubts and regrets. He resides in tomorrow, but you live now! Most likely, you will run away with a bad guy, which is more present in today. Bad guys make future now. They act, make mistakes, then back in force. This is more like life. – This one I don’t know how to explain either.  Sure some people may be focused on the future, but that can be treated as both a good or a bad thing.  I think Its personally a good thing to aim towards the future, it helps you keep your priority straight and helps keep track of your goals; but I’m not sure how that translates into relationships.

Anyways, thats some of the information I got from digging around, and I just thought I’d share.  of course I could look into writing a “Part 2″ but that all depends on how much user feedback and comments I get from you .

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