The WHY of it

Why is it that sooooo many teachers are into blogging? Why do I feel that it is something I should be doing? Is this because I'm a language arts teacher?

Why don't I use blogs with my students? I use wiki, ning, animoto, glogster...why not blogs? Could it be a time thing? Reading so many blogs? I have 165 students. That's a lot of reading. But, I read their reading responses on the wiki.

Why did I name my blog Teaching 2.0 Style? Did I think I would only blog about the uses of "technology" in my English classroom?

I read snippets of blogs that are posted by people I follow on twitter. How do bloggers become popular? Why do they become popular?

There is one person I follow on twitter and about all s/he does any more is plug her/his blog. I'm about ready to quit following him/her. Should I tell him/her? Would s/he be offended?

Is that a why? Like 'why should I bother?' I don't really know that person.

All this social networking stuff is pretty new to me. Less than a year. Several months less than a year. I feel overwhelmed? Why is that?