Ok so my first blog. Not really, but maybe the first one I'll actually continue to use.
Blog, it's funny how this word never used to exist years ago. It's weird how much the world has changed and become so adapted to the Internet. I mean I may only be a teenager, but when I was in middle school, a blog, blogging, vlogging, twitter, and facebook never existed.
Blogging may not change the world exactly but it definitely has left its mark. Now, anyone from any country can read the text on the screen from their own home. I can keep in contact with friends and family that have moved away to different countries or even different cities. Since moving to university the only way to keep in contact with my friends from high school has been through social networking sites and sites such as blogger. I can read up on their daily experiences and never feel out of the loop. I can search blogs for topics that interest me and actually connect with the authors. Blogging has brought around an entirely different form of communication. Instead of waiting for a letter through the mail, or reading the newspaper for national and international happenings I can just log in and read. Maybe not a life changing occurrence, but blogging certainly makes it easier.
It's 6:45am and for whatever reason I can't fall asleep tonight. And although I have no one to talk to or keep me entertained, I do have this blog to occupy me and give me a sense of communicating with someone. I mean I know eventually some one's eyes will read these words.
People from all over the world can come together and read the same blog and connect with each other without ever having to really put an effort into anything. Is it laziness or just convenience? To be honest I can't decide. But for whatever reason, blogging is bringing together thousands of people with the same interest and allowing them to share this interest with the world. Also, from the blogs I have read tonight I can also tell that writing a blog allows people a sort of outlet for their thoughts and feelings that for different reasons can't be shared with others in their life. It's like having an online diary, only it's throwing out the whole idea of it being private, though I'm sure some people do have private blogs.
Now as for the blogs I visited. The first one I read was about a man struggling with his identity as a homosexual man as well as a devout Christian and the title of this blog was Two world Collision. I found this appropriate as it is often found that Christianity finds it hard to accept homosexuality as well as the fact that homosexuals often judge Christians as close minded bigots. This man's journey to accept himself and find a balance between his two identities was actually heartfelt and I wish this man luck to finding happiness and balance. The next blog I read was about the media, journalism public affairs and how it all relates back to the public. It was called Innovative Journalism Blog. Appropriate title I think. Anyways the first entry I read was about Apple's new Ipad, which I'm sure everyone knows about as of now. I found the entry to be true as well as comical. And the next entry I read was about how the music industry does not make buying records an easy transaction with other countries so why bother paying for it when you can download it free? I found this reasonable, but then again I'm pretty sure itunes allows you to buy the music from anywhere as long as you have the software, so this guy may not be trying his hardest. For the final blog I decided to look at I tried to change it up. It was a purely photographic blog. Somewhere for the artist to show off his work. This blog was called Urban Nature. I enjoyed the photos and found it nice that artists can now get some publicity for their work without emptying their pockets.
Blogger isn't the only blogging site online obviously, and I actually have accounts on other sites as well but from what I can tell blogger is a decent site for beginners. It's easy to understand and navigate through, and the entire concept is actually very simple; just write.
Now twitter. Oh how I've avoided getting one for so long. In my opinion Twitter is just another social networking site that makes stalking people's everyday life easier. Of course the people on twitter are willingly giving up this information for their "followers" to view so stalking isn't the appropriate word. On a second note, I feel that anyone who feels the need to update their twitter whenever something changes is just doing it to feel as if other people actually care what they are doing every second of the day. Though, with the fact that these people actually do have "followers" maybe they're justified in believing people care? I'm being harsh I know. Twitter actually is like a small blog I guess. I mean go through a weeks worth of 140 character status changes and it does give you an idea of this person's life. And who knows, it may even be entertaining.
Just personally, I'd much rather read any one's blog on Blogger than read what someone is doing in 140 characters or less. I think every day occurrences, no matter how small deserve to be explained and analyzed instead of just stated. Based on Twitter's popularity though, it could just be me who thinks this.
I think this just about wraps up my thoughts for the night.
Until next time,
-PTolmie
