Blogging: Communication Tool or TMI (too much info)

With any new technology there are four stages which happen. The first is the BUZZ. This is when computer or software companies 'tease' you about the next best thing since sliced bread and how could you have ever lived (insert number of years you have lived) with out this newest new (current example: the iPhone). Then comes the pioneers. These are the people who are the first people to use the new technology. They usually are dealing with bugs and less than good short cuts and at best a very rough copy of what the technology will eventually evolve into. Example: the cell phone of the early 1990's (the word brick comes to mind). Third, is the general public moving ahead of the curve. This means the technology has trickled down and has been refined and modified so the regular folks are able to (without too many problems or headaches) be proficient in using the technology. (I believe that Blogging is in this stage). Finally, you get saturation and extinction. This is when the fad or craze just fades into the horizon. (Store bought CDs are teetering on this line currently... soon store bought CDs will go the way of the Dodo or at least cassette tapes and 8 track tapes).

Blogging... how did the world manage for nearly 3.3 billion years prior to this amazing new technology?!?!

Don't get me wrong... I think there are several levels and applications in the overall grand scheme of Blogging.

For example, some blogs can be informational regarding a certain interest or hobby you might enjoy. For example, I am an ultra marathoner, and there is a very popular Blog created and maintained by Scott Dunlap: http://runtrails.blogspot.com/ Though I do not visit all that often, maybe once every 2 weeks, I find myself reading or skimming posts for more than an hour each time I visit the page. Some Blogs can be educational... and I will revisit this type to concluded my assignment. The last type of Blogging (which makes me ask... What are people thinking?....) are Blogs that detail people's personal lives and private thoughts and beliefs. More or less people don't have anything better to do than tell the world about their lives. I thought that was what a diary was for??!! So, in my eyes Blogging does have some redeeming qualities (which I will touch on later), I just don't understand this new 'need' to make our private lives so public using the world wide web as or vessel and blogging or my space being the instrument.