Why Blogs Are Still Relevant

Blogs are still relevant in 2025

There are many reasons why having a blog or enjoying blogs in the modern day is relevant. In a world of doom scrolling, it is a slower paced way of enjoying the sharing of information and ideas. Unlike TikTok or Instagram, a blog is not loud or coming at you in flashes on a screen. You read and explore at your own leisure. Blogging is a way to share ideas or read ideas from others, to learn new things and connect with people who have similar goals or hobbies are yourself. Like a magazine, you can enjoy digital articles and images on any interest imaginable.

Of course, not all blogs are created equal. Anyone can share their ideas; the good and the bad. Like social media, there is a dark side of people spewing hate into the digital abyss, but there is also light and joy being shared in the blogging world. I tend to find blogs lean more towards the positive than other social platforms. People are sharing their aspirations, dreams, and talents with the world. There are people sharing information is a world with a media trying to suppress it.

On blogs people share tutorials and how-tos, recipes, art, travel tips, their own adventures, photography and home design. People share their lives and their stories. They teach, they learn, and they connect. I like to think that blogging as an act of resistance. It’s a gentle way of saying “my voice matters.”

Blogs connect us

I started my blog back in 2012 as a place for just my business to share my wedding photos and promote my photography. I didn’t read blogs or have a desire to write for one. It was not until 2015 that I started reading blogs regularly and then had the motivation to start writing my own. I started with simply sharing some positive living thoughts and my local New England travels. I was not in any of the photos. My husband told me that people didn’t want to just read my posts, they were interested in seeing me and learning more about me in my blog. “Get in the picture,” he encouraged me. I hated it.

One of my earlier blog photos is below. Matthew stood with me for this one:

As a photographer, I was always behind the camera and not in front of it. I didn’t like the way I looked in photos. I felt awkward and embarrassed taking photos of myself with a tripod in public (I still do if I’m being honest). People I knew teased me, some good naturedly and others with malicious intent. But my blog grew. People are interested in other people. It was not enough to just share writing and photos of places, I had to share a bit of myself. I have found this to be true of the blogs I also follow. I love hearing other people’s stories. Even though my life is simple, my blog is a reflection of me.

By 2018 my blog grew to about 8 thousand viewers a year. Then I separated my blog and my wedding website into two different websites and lost my followers. I was crushed. While it was the right thing to do for my business, I thought that I had ruined my personal blog for good. Posts that were getting hundreds of views previously only got two. Yet I kept sharing.  Eventually, my blog surpassed my previous count. I went up to 34,000 views a year! It’s still a modest amount, but wow am I amazed that so many people see my blog as worth viewing. Meanwhile, my Instagram has a little over 2,000 followers. Blogs can have a far more impactful reach. And old posts live on. With most social platforms, a post becomes irrelevant after about a week or two. Some of my most popular blog posts were ones I wrote several years ago.

And then life happened again; I started a new job trying to be more “successful” and instead I got two years of burn out and no time for friends, family, my health, hobbies or my blog. I rarely posted anything for two years. I had no time to take photos for myself, little time to write and very little inspiration.

Still, old posts resonated and endured. Pinterest kept my blog alive. I posted what little I could. I left that job earlier this year and I’m coming out of the burnout. “Blogs are dead,” I hear all of the time, but I don’t believe that to be true. People still read mine, even when I have not posted anything new in a while. I took a look at my stats for the other week and was surprised to see that 1,441 people were on my blog that week. I was even more surprised to see that my unexpected audience was in Germany last week. It really is amazing how the internet can connect people from different cultures, countries and backgrounds and unite us with common interests and joy.

You own your blog

If you’re a writer, you know that you own your blog. You have to pay for the domain name and web hosting, but you own it and control it. Social media rules often state that they own your content. Every time you share a photo or write a caption the copyright is shared with the social media platform. They could also shut down at any time or close your account. Things change, but a blog is truly your own. You make the rules of what can be shared. As long as you’re still paying for web hosting, your blog will live on, even after your other social media platforms have been left behind.

When you have a blog, you’re sharing your thoughts and photos with the world. Perhaps you’re sharing your art, your story, or information on a topic that you feel passionately about. It is something to be proud of.

In a fast-paced world, I hope that you continue to read blogs. In a world divided, it is a positive reminder that there are good people out there. Creativity endures. We are more connected than we think. If you are a creative soul who has thought about writing a blog, or who used to have one, I hope you start. Whether you’re starting again or starting anew, consider a blog. I don’t do it for any money blogging. (I barely make money from my blog. Monetizing is tough and I don’t partner with brands often enough.) The joy comes from the act of creating and connecting.