Originally Posted by helterskelter808

Depends on what she wants to do with it. Ask a question where Wordpress is a possible answer and 90% of people here will simply say "Wordpress", regardless of the situation.

With Blogger you can use your own domain for free, many people do it. Same with Tumblr.

IMO it's not necessary to have your own domain, especially for a small site or one that's just starting. Millions of people have free blogs, as a subdomain, at wordpress.com, but it's just about $20 year to use your own domain.

The advantage of wordpress.com is it's it's arguably better than Blogger, but like Blogger it's hosted, no need to worry about administering it, keeping it updated, or paying hosting fees, and she is likely to get traffic from wordpress.com itself. A potential disadvantage is they apparently 'sometimes' show ads. They can be removed for $30/year.

So about $50 a year could get a blog on wordpress.com with domain and no ads. If she needs to run her own ads, it's not possible on wordpress.com.

Even if she hosts it, and is willing to administer it, Wordpress(.org) isn't the only option. There is also the popular Moveable Type and lighter-weight software, Textpattern.