Greetings Blog,
Well, we are in the last month of the spring semester so everything is starting to converge together...meaning I've been trying to keep ahead with assignments and so don't really have anything exciting to post today!
That being said though, I figured that now would be just as good a time as any post some of my thoughts on my blogging experience thus far.
Firstly, as I sort of alluded to with my very first posting, I never saw myself as actually doing a blog at all. I never was the type to keep a diary or scrapbook or the likes and although I do enjoy writing, I wouldn't say that I'm much of a creative writer or storyteller; my writing style is more analytic. Also, I'm a fairly reserved person, I don't like to perform or act, can't sing well, don't dance, etc. and I value my privacy. No one should have the impression that I'm painfully shy or a recluse by any means, I guess what I'm trying to say is that while I know I have things that are worth saying and things that are worth sharing; I simply don't feel the need to just open up and tell those things to everyone in the world.
I suppose maybe I'm just old fashioned or whatever, but it just seems to me that discretion and dignity is becoming a thing of the past. When did it become so important for everyone to know all the minute details of your everyday life? When did it become necessary to comment on everything, especially when so many of those comments are irrelevant, vulgar, or callous? Why do we as a society sudden feel that the spotlight is all that matters? Of course we could go on and on about these things, but in a cynical way it doesn't matter seeing as I'm sure these words have been said before...then again that's the evolution of communication in action!
On the plus side, I must admit that blogging has been a insightful experience for me in that I can certainly now appreciate the efforts that bloggers must put in to ensure that their posts are current, informative, and/or entertaining. With the "convenience" of the internet, people forget that very real effort must go into endeavors on the web whether it be a blog, vlog, or video. The fact that people actually make their living through internet publications attests that there is more this realm of media than meets the eye.
If anything, blogging has given me an incentive to bite the bullet and finally get an I-Phone. Its hard to blog without having a camera handy and I am convinced that my posts would be much more spontaneous and thus far more entertaining than they would be otherwise.
We shall see...
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