Today it is difficult to imagine any person’s leisure time without the Internet There are places in it where, while absorbing information, it is as if you are touching the lives of other people, absorbing their impressions of events, getting acquainted with their thoughts on this or that matter We're talking about blogs The blog was first created in 1994 Later, about a year later, this phenomenon was given the name Weblog, which can literally be translated as “network diary” Over time, the tendency to describe their thoughts, experiences, and life events was picked up by residents of many countries around the world Convenient online platforms have begun to appear where this can be easily done The Internet community, visually examining the word Blog, determined by the majority of the number of options that it is associatively similar to the combination of numbers 3108 Thus, they decided to celebrate August 31 - Blog Day The holiday has become international because so many people in different languages of the world have picked up the tradition of blogging So, since 2005, when Blog Day was first celebrated, every year on August 31, thousands of new pages with personal blogs of people of various professions, beliefs and ages appear on the Internet Thus, Blog Day is designed to unite people, establish contacts in the work and personal sphere, exchange interests and thoughts, in a word, bring people together, regardless of the distances between them It is important to distinguish between the holidays Blog Day and International Blogger Day (June 14), because the first is aimed at the product itself, an information genre on the Internet, and the second is aimed at the individual We live in the information era, when everything is decided through knowledge And a huge role in this is played by the personal thoughts of each person, which, thanks to the Internet, have the opportunity to be the property of a group of people reading this or that blog A great merit in this matter is the creation and prosperity of Live Journal, since it was in it that the majority of the Russian-speaking population of the planet could find like-minded people, express their emotions, transforming them into text So, blogging, as a result of human creativity, is the newest method for people to get to know each other and their socialization The Internet helps to expose your innermost thoughts and send them online to other network users Uncensored and unedited Such as they are born in the head of the thinker This is why this type of self-realization online is valuable