It was on this day last year that I stumbed upon goodmorningyesterday.

Since then, I got to know the blog’s author, Mr Lam Chun See. Over the weekend, while I was at the Singapore Philatelic Museum, Chun See was at the Queenstown Community Library giving a talk about blogging to senior citizens.

About 100 people turned up, and by all accounts, the audience loved Chun See’s and Ivan’s introduction to blogging. They even managed to inspire “Ah Lee”, who was among the audience, to start a blog.

Chun See made several points about why seniors should blog. I want to expand on his point that “Blogging… helps us to connect with the younger generation. It helps to bridge the so called ‘digital divide’.”

Blogging connects people.

It’s as simple as that. I wouldn’t know Chun See without blogs. I wouldn’t have had the pleasure of knowing the wonderful bunch at yesterday.sg too. Bloggers, you see, aren’t solitary, navel-gazing creatures. They may write for themselves. But as an open medium, blogs allow other with similar interests – young and old – to seek each other out. Bloggers are, in effect, saying to the world, “Hey, this interests me. If it interests you too, let’s converse.”

You never know where those conversations will take you.

Original photo by Ivan Chew,
modified from www.flickr.com/photos/ramblinglibrarian/305654839/, under a cc by-nc-sa 2.0 license.

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