Forgive my ignorance but as you will guess I am a complete novice to all of this.

What is the purpose of having blogs? I have myspace with the option for blogs - why do people have separate bloggers? There must be an advantage - can someone please enlighten me.

Does it provide a medium for you to have links to information held separately from myspace?

Any advice would be most welcome.

Umm, I don't think this is where it belongs, it's rather general.

Myspace... most people I know don't use the blogs on myspace. The point of myspace, as far as I know, is to connect to people, to meet people, to be friends with people... that's the main point of it.

Blogs like xanga, blogger, or livejournal... or even *real* blogs on a subdomain or personal site, are for writing, for journaling, that kind of thing. So it just depends on what you want to do.