...an interesting way to write and voice your opinions. I think writing on the internet in general is pretty fascinating simply because it makes for a much bigger audience than a printed medium. It's much easier for someone to stumble upon a blog or article online and read it than for them to stumble upon a book and decide to read it. You never know who might read something you post online, which can be exciting as well as intimidating depending on what you write or your confidence level in it.
I don't really mind blogging for class, I actually prefer it to handing in assignments in most other mediums. But I'm not crazy about the idea of blogging in general. I feel like for every well thought out and poignant blog there are a dozen, or even a hundred, blogs simply devoted to someone's irrelevant or mundane opinions. They lack real meaning. The whole proliferation of blogging has given almost anyone the chance to be a writer. For those people who have intelligent things to say, it's a great advancement. But there's a reason why not everyone was able to get published in print, and blogging allows a lot of people the chance to ramble to anyone willing to read.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Haha I'm kind of used to blogging by now since we've been doing it for two semesters instead of 1 like mostly everyone else in our class. I don't mind it and like you said I totally prefer blogging over any other type of written homework. I do totally agree with what you said about the people who pointlessly ramble and talk about nothing in their blog posts. I saw this episode of House once and this girl was pretty much dying but she needed to blog about everything she made. Every time she made a decision about what the doctors should do she blogged about it. She's like "My followers need to know whats going on." Like are you kidding? You're dying in a hospital and all you can think about is updating your followers? Come on now. And yea there def is a reason why everyone doesn't get published haha.
ReplyDelete