Why Blog?- Reflection

My thoughts on this article are positive; I liked the format of it and the content of it. It was pretty informational and helpful in teaching us why and how to blog. It answered the question in depth and he gave many good points and information to back up what topics he was talking about. For example, when he was talking about his technical advice for building a blog, he gave us why you should do it and how you should go about doing each point of his advice. I think it really drove home the point of when you are a blogger, you get to have that creative freedom that many people are looking for when writing something online. It’s basically like the saying, “you are your own master” in a sense because it’s you who is writing what you want and not just writing about what other people want to see/hear, simply replying to another online user, or just doing it for a class assignment. Although you get to write about whatever you want to, you have to also take responsibility and be accountable for what you say online and be ready for negative comments because people that don’t like what you are blogging about, will say (type something in this case) how they feel on it due to the anonymity factor when they are online. I think blogging is a good way to engage in the act of writing, in a class anyway, without having the heavy restrictions of a paper that has a deadline. People can either just input their opinions without being too in depth or they can write as in-depth as they want to. I also understand why people would rather just write or type up a paper because it’s not confusing in that you just have to write about what is assigned and don’t have to be that creative, half of my body is in the boat and the other half is in the water on this one because I do like a definitive direction and path that comes with writing a paper, but I also want to be creative about what I write too. I believe that if you get to be creative about writing, you are more inclined to write more because you are writing about things that interest you and things that you find intriguing. In this article, he actually cites documented data that found that first year college students write 92 pages compared to the 146 pages that college seniors write (on average at least). I personally don’t mind writing; just that it’s not pages upon pages or if it’s not something I don’t find interesting. I tend to write a lot more, or at least take more notes than most people anyway because I feel like I have to get all of the information that I can from it so I can be prepared to write about it or talk about it (though I am a introvert and don’t like talking in front of a lot of people). In conclusion I think that blogging, just like everything else, is for a certain type of person, and not for other types of people.