Blog of Blogs

Blogging this year was quite helpful. What benefited me most was how we had to blog every week. Keeping up with the blog and constantly thinking about my reading really helped me. By blogging every week, my writing also improved. I read my very first blog post the other day. Compared to my more recent ones, it had a lot less thought in it. My blog posts gradually improved so I almost think of my blog as a scrapbook where you can see how my handwriting or drawing improved. I also benefited from commenting on blogs. When writing the posts, I had to think about how many people could potentially read them and it improved the way I wrote. I also enjoyed commenting on other people’s posts because it gave me a chance to read other people’s writing in my own age group and see how the styles differ. I was also able to find some ideas that would work well in my posts.

Writing online allows for the possibility for people other than my teachers and classmates to read my writing, and it creates a different style since the blogger knows others can read it. It creates a more connectable tone. I know that my parents and a few of my friends’ parents have read my blog and knowing that changed the way I wrote. This is not better nor worse, simply different. Writing in a notebook is also different because you have complete ownership of it, but a blog, however, is open to the world. Google owns it. I technically own the blog, but Google could take it at any time. It is different in a notebook where you know that it is safe unless you are a mighty forgetful person. The one thing that is similar between a notebook and a blog, at least in this case, is that both are graded. That also affects the style of writing. Writing online can be liberating because it allows the freedom of connecting with friends and sharing ideas. Blogs allow people to be free and allow their ideas to be spread around the world (not like anyone in another country would read my blog, however, they could).  Writing on a blog is also limiting for the writer because they are not free to say whatever they would like because they know that others could read it. It is exposed to the world.

I believe that teenagers use sites like facebook vigorously. It is unnatural for children to be on the computer for so long talking and sharing pictures with their friends and family. The things people do on facebook all can be done over the phone or in person and I do not approve whatsoever. Students use facebook to say things that they would not say to someone’s face, and I think this is mostly bad. When someone does not want to say something to a person, it often means that what they would say is not kind. This is why facebook is used as a way to be disrespectful to others. I do not plan on getting a facebook, unless I am absent for more than three days and desperately need the homework.

I think that blogging is a marvelous idea. Blogs are a way for others to read your writing as well as a new experience of writing for the blogger. I do enjoy blogs quite a bit. If I were to make a new blog, it would consist mostly of poetry. I have a website with a few poems on it, however, this is no blog. I believe that I will keep up this blog. I do not expect to have time in high school to write every week, but whenever I must do a book report or essay for school, I shall post it. This is partly because it is a good way to store material so that if my computer breaks down, I can reach my old posts from any other computer. It will also bring me great joy to view these book responses in 30 years. As I said before, blogs are like electronic scrapbooks.