Today’s post is brought to you by Kandace from One Red Wall. We are participating in the 20SB 7th blog swap, so you can find my post over at Kandace’s blog. But now, back to Kandace.

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Hello all, I’m Kandace from One Red Wall. Karen and I are participating in 20sb’s Blog Swap 7. You would imagine that since I have been blogging for almost 10 years total that writing a guest post would be the same as writing my own. You may believe it would be easy, since you write for whoever chooses to read, even if you don’t know them. Except it’s Not the same. You are set to witness my first guest post. It’s actually pretty intimidating. After all, you follow this blog because of the wonderful writing stylings of Karen. And clearly, I’m not Karen. After considering many ideas, and then rejecting them as more of a My blog topic than a Dream Once More topic, I decided I’d write about our suggested topic.

Would you like to know what I think the best thing about being a blogger is? It is that your blog is whatever you want it to be. If you look around any of the blogging communities out on the internet you’ll find many different types of blogs. I’m a list maker, so I’ll give you a partial list, even though you probably already know. There are wedding blogs, baby blogs, sex blogs, tech blogs, photography blogs, cupcake blogs, fashion blogs, personal blogs… Basically write about Anything You Want. You can tell everyone you know about your blog and link it to your other social networking sites, or you can be anonymous and blog under an assumed name. Again, Anything you want. My blog is a semi-anonymous personal blog about my life and thoughts. I don’t tell the people I know in real life about my blog except Husband, who chooses to keep his very common first name private.

Personal bloggers are able to share parts of our lives with people. I’m able to write about the things I can’t just randomly talk about to the people where I live. Either it’s never relevant, or it’s something I’d rather they didn’t Know. Or it may just be that on my blog I can go into detail and be as dorky as I want. Even better, over time we find or are found by the people who connect with us based on the things we are thinking or feeling. Most of these people wouldn’t have found us without the help of the blogging communities out there, like 20sb. Having those people you like to read and who read what you have to say just make the blogging experience that much better. That’s what makes a blog so much better than a paper journal, the interaction and the support. I’ve made several online friendships, but I’ve even made a few real life friends in the past with other local bloggers. It happens. For those of you in your 20′s who blog and Haven’t found 20sb yet, Get over there. It’s a Wonderful place. It’s amazing the way the people of the blogging community come together for each other. Like LoveHarder, when many bloggers came together to help a blogger in need. We grow and build friendships of course, but there are so many times when they are there for a stranger just because a blogger they Do know puts the word out. It’s kind of amazing.

There are so many reasons to love blogging and to appreciate blogging communities. Your blog can be whatever you want. Just start there, with what you love or what you need out of your blog. Then with the help of blogging communities you can find a whole world of personal connections you’d have never found around your neighborhood.