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People use the internet. You use the internet. Have you ever sat down and asked yourself the question of why you use the internet? Why others use the internet?

I have.

I feel like I ask myself that daily. In fact, it’s one of the first things that I thought about when I first started blogging consistently here on ChurchCrunch. I asked myself why the world needs another blog about web technology.

The fact is that it doesn’t. But I’ll get to that in a second.

As I’ve come to understand it there are some core and base reasons why people use the internet:

1. To Find Information

2. To Be Entertained

3. To Do Work (Generate Income, Run a Business)

4. To Communicate Something

5. To Socialize

Now, this list is neither comprehensive nor exhaustive, but I think you could probably bucket anything else in these top 5. And, in most cases, it’s typically a combination of a few.

For myself I realized that I wanted to do #4, then provide #1 and then (hopefully) do some of #5. I wanted to communicate valueable information to the public. If the “community” was generated, that would be sweet, but there was no guarantee.

Now, in regard to the fact that the blogosphere didn’t actually need another web tech blog is the fact that it’s not about saturation necessarily but with satisfaction. The question ultimately, for me, boiled down to whether or not the blogs that we’re “doing” what I intended to do were satisfying the growing need that I saw.

Obviously I felt that they weren’t, but that’s not to demean any one or any blog. Remember, I felt, at the base-level, that I wanted to do #4.

So is your blog satisfying something? Does it fulfill a need?