Blogger – Is It a New Profession or a Hobby?

A blogger today is a specialist who creates a blog and publishes content on the Internet in order to attract the audience attention. Nevertheless, the results of sociological surveys show that this new type of activity remains unknown to the part of population despite its popularity. The author compares the materials of the All-Russian survey with the survey results obtained by the author in the city of Voronezh in January 2024 which was intended to identify the bloggers audience size among various socio-demographic groups. According to the survey results it turns out that the largest bloggers audience is among young people.

Public opinion is ambiguous about the information in Internet blogs, since plenty of people believe that you can find both truth and lies in equal proportions there. However, not everyone can distinguish truth from falsehood, so the question arises about the possibility and necessity of blogging state regulation. The population majority is in favor of the government regulation of individual blocks content on certain topics, especially those related to national security. But there are also the opposite opinion supporters, so this topic is debatable.

Blogging can be just a hobby or it can turn into a profession. A blogger's job is about publishing content and communicating with subscribers. The income of bloggers registered as freelancers can reach high level depending on the number of views and subscribers on their channels. If this is a profession, then one of the questions that determines its prestige if one would like to see their own children or grandchildren involved in this type of activity. As a result, the author emphasizes the problematic nature of blogging activity, which has ceased to be just a hobby, but has not yet become a profession.