The Internet is a wonderful invention. Researching and emailing has made our lives easier and in many ways better. As the dot-com crash of the late 1990s demonstrated, nothing is perfect.
The internet is great at creating and ruining fads. One of these might have already hit you. I’m talking about blogging. You know, an online journal allows you to record your thoughts on the world wide web. If for some reason you haven’t started your blog yet, don’t. Here are 5 reasons not to start a blog today.
1. Be different
If it’s true that a new blog is started every second somewhere in the world, then everyone is doing it. Not you. You march to the beat of a different drummer and won’t join the crowd on the blogs. This is a very good reason not to start a blog today.
2. You don’t know how to write
It doesn’t matter that if you can talk you can write. All you need is a good spell checker and you’re on your way. No way could it be that easy. Because you don’t really know how to speak or write, this is a very good reason not to start your blog.
3. You don’t want to hire someone to write
Because search engines crave information and a blog is a great way to provide that you could hire a blog writer and probably build a decent blog without any effort on your part. But then you would have to pay $5-$7 for 200-300 word posts on your blog and that’s out of the question. Due to the out-of-this-world prices to hire a blog writer, this is another good reason not to start a blog today.
4. You are a quitter
The internet is full of useless junk that nobody cares about. Websites that look like they were created by a 2-year-old are a waste of valuable web space. Blogs that are 2 weeks worth of content and are 1 year old are just as bad. Do you know how many blogs were started and then dropped like a hot potato? The majority of them. Since you abandon everything you start on the Internet, this is a good reason not to start a blog of your own today.
For whatever reason, as I was writing this, over 1800 blogs were started. Some think that they will get rich on his blog and you and I know that this is not true. So I guess this is the #5 reason not to start a blog today. The odds that you will ever make money on a blog are not very good. Why try!
