I Have a God-Given Right to Blog! Do You?

Who gives me the right to blog?  Is it God-given?  

Do I have a right to blog? Should I blog? Is what I have to say relevant?  Will anyone care? Am I using this as an exercise of mental health?  Do 'I' care too much about what 'I' have to say?

(Yes people, I know at this point you are all asking… who gives me the right to blog, I will expect lots of comments, hopefully not too harsh)

These are questions everyone should ask themselves before starting a blog, some get scared off by the thought of it.  The putting of your ideas and thoughts forward for an unforgiving public to point and exclaim its a work of genius or criticize that it is a glorious failure of epic proportions is a frighting proposition for most.  The truth is, most likely you will not be lucky enough to get either... and that is truly the worst critique you can receive and what you should fear the most.

Based on what I can find out there in the blogosphere (By the way Microsoft word does not consider that word an error…) there are four types of bloggers. I will give a type or two at the end from my personal love/hate list.

1. Those who have something to say, have an audience in mind, and can write with at least a touch of eloquence and keep their readers interested through new information, interesting topics, unique insights or even with controversial quips.  Either way, they apply some effort and thought into what they do (I hope Anderson Says fits into this category – Let me know).  My likes: Mashable (business and personal), Kottke.org and I try to follow from time to time Errol Morris.
2. Those who feel they have to blog – some celebrities, companies, executives, business owners, etc… Half are pushed into it either by a marketing department, PR department, some sort of specialist or even a spouse.  But the bloggers apathy can always shine through if the blog is not genuine. These are the types that start with a heavy posting schedule and slowly die out or never get any type of critical mass moving simply because it is someone else that cares, not them. I really had to do some research here, because frankly I don't like to waste my time... but survey says Britney Spears (how very toxic indeed Brit!), Victoria Beckham, and honestly, I feel a bit dirty and less of a person after reading... Too bad its not a book or I certainly would have Burned After Reading...
   
3. Those with no true insight, no gift of writing (even basic), no original ideas, or people that are just too lazy to use a simple blogging tool to help them set up a reasonable assemblage of something nice to see, useful or user friendly.  The bottom line is they are just lazy. I think there is an endless supply, no need really for examples.
   
4. Whining – cry babies – dirt mongers and other such dregs on our society - that should not even be allowed to use the internet to be fair… They fill our monitors with such crap that it can sometimes make you laugh that someone can actually be that dim, but in fact should make you cry that this is what actually comes out of our school systems. Blogo-trash!

So… I have included some examples in the above hyper links, but as you can see I have stayed away from citing local sites – Maybe a fear of persecution… oh I mean retribution syndrome…  Or maybe just a chance for us to see what will develop with their blogs over the next year or so before I join the blog-bashing-bandwagon. 

The logical questions at this point:

Why do people in groups 2-4 keep blogging?  Can anyone make them stop? Why do we keep reading? Will they ruin it for the rest of us?  Will people be so sick and tired of all the blogo-trash that the way-of-the-blog will die out?

I say – Let them blog!  I can always block their page; stop following it or blog-bash it later! 

We do have a God-given right to blog and it is a tool for stable mental health and yes, sometimes people do care about what you have to say.  Hopefully, and in best case scenarios, what you have to say might open eyes to new ideas, new insights and new cultures!

So what do you think?  Who gets the right to blog? Who should just stop?  Who gets hurt by blogo-trash?  Do too many people put too much stock into what others say?