Second random thought for today.

Private blogs.

What exactly is their purpose?

I understand that sometimes a person will need to put their blog on private mode if they have a work scare or a holy-shit-someone-I-know-in-real-life-found-my-blog and now-knows-what-I-really-think-of-them scare.

What I don't understand, is why people take up a piece of space on the blogosphere so that only the "privileged" few can read their written diarrhea. We all know that the reason people have blogs is to become the next Dooce (seriously, who wouldn't want to earn an income by just writing about your day-to-day life no matter how mundane it may be?), so I don't understand how a private blog would get you noticed. Because,well, it wouldn't get you noticed, would it?

And if you didn't care either way about being a blogowhore and you've only given your url to say three to five people, why don't you just write mass emails instead? Because that's what a private blog would be, right? An endless stream of mass emails that are being masked as a having a tiny corner of internet real estate?