Making a blog wasn’t that difficult considering I already had a Google account. The hardest part was thinking up a name. Do you put your name in the title? Should you say it’s for a class? So, I ended up with the ever so creative “Rebecca’s Writing Blog.” Creating a Facebook page was definitely more involved. I mean with a Facebook account you have pictures, personal information, and friends to contend with. For this blog there were simply three steps.
Should it be so easy to create a blog though? I don’t know if it is really the best idea to just let anyone post their thoughts in a continuing online journal. Now, I don’t read any blogs (except one by an old English teacher) but I’m guessing some of them are interesting and useful, like the ones for organizations, while others are either hour by hour descriptions of someone’s day or scary, radical rants. The latter don’t seem that blog-worthy to me, though realistically most personal blogs probably don’t get that many readers and only the popular ones would show up on any search engines. There’s an example of how the internet self-regulates.
A blog shouldn’t be like a private diary, though I hear some people treat them that way. Obviously it isn’t private; it’s on the internet. Blogs should be used for commentary, as a way to interact with the news around you. They should be a place to post reasonably well thought out opinion pieces.
I’ve never blogged before, and I don’t even have a tumblr or twitter account, so this should be an interesting experience.
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