With kids and dogs, this is sooo True!

Blogs are pretty popular it seems, from teenagers to middle age plus. What is the interest in them to put your personal life out there for all to read? I do not even know if anyone would have any interest in how my days are if they stumbled upon this. If you are reading this could you answer why you started a blog and what keeps you going? It is to meet people or just express yourself? I am curious as to what makes this journal keeping on-line so popular. What happens if the server goes down and you lose all your thoughts? Since I am a newbie, these are just things I wonder. My teenager has a blog and I am very protective as to what she can or shouldn't post. As an adult I do not have the circle of friends that she has to create a flow or update circle of information among them. I'd like to get a few of my friends involved so we can keep each other informed as to our life events some times we get so wrapped up in our own world or problems that we let to much time go by before trying to catch up. Also, it would be nice to meet a few new friends. I know nowadays I am limited to the availablity of meeting new friends. May be this is a method to do that... Anyway, that's all this post has...

I have heard a lot about blogging. This is my first post and attempt at creating one! I am not even sure where to start. Are there really 30+ people that do this out there?