Opinion on Blogs
At the beginning of this blog, I posted a comment on how I was still making up my mind as to whether I hate or love blogs. I've decided on a mutual indifference.
At the beginning, I was excited and nervous about my first blog -- wondering whether people would find it funny or insightful. I tried hard on the blog, read it over several times, contemplated the messages and meaning behind the piece, and even had some of my friends proofread it for their opinions. However, as I've written more blogs and become more swamped by schoolwork, I have more respect for the blogging community. See I do NOT want to share my personal life, feelings, thoughts, and whatever opinions pop in my head. If I did that, I would want it to be 100% anonymous with no link back to myself. But I've seen that in order to make good blogs you have to do one of two things:
1. Write about something intellectually stimulating or interesting for all persons.
2. Write about your personal life.
Let's face it (ah, I can not believe I just used that cliche but I am keeping this anyway because it is more of a stream of consciousness than an actual piece of writing. But we all know that Americans and probably people everywhere (though I can not generalize for other cultures) LOVE our gossip. It is what gives our lives the subpar information which we fill our days with. Humans have such a need to be liked by others, I think it is an innate evolutionary trait which forces individuals of our species to grow close and reproduce. Which could explain why God made sex and love intertwined, but what a silly thing to do. I digress. Gossip. We all love gossip, even those who say they don't, do. So I've decided that if someone writes about a relationship or gossip which is interesting a "juicy" they can survive in the blogging world. A problem with this, is that you usually give away your personal beliefs on certain issues when you either support or criticize someone during your gossip rant. I do not want to do that, I value my privacy like every other American (and once again maybe other cultures).
Now let's address what the majority of my blog (or at least what I wanted the majority to be about) -- intellectually stimulating conversation which could help people realize other views. The great thing about this is that I CAN take a opposing side and argue it from an intellectual standpoint and still not tell anything about myself: except that I am a good debate/rhetorician. However, this is not possible with gossip. If I try to take on the persona of a senile old racist and defend them in gossip (to give one example) people will criticize me for that view on gossip. Intellectually, I could explain how people who are like that have been raised under a different value system than our own and it is hard to change set views. This would probably be a neutral argument, because it is just that: an argument rather than a personal opinion.
And so sums up my blog. I do not want to reveal anything substantial about me because if I'm running to be the next Supreme Court Justice and they find out I wrote a intellectual or gossip piece about support Communism or something I would be kicked out. Plus, I just do not fell anyone has earned the right to learn about the privacy of my life. So I would not want to post something personal on the Internet to have everyone to read unless it was anonymous. This is not, so I feel this blog will not continue past this current semester.
Blog #X (forgotten by now) completed for ENGL 102.
At the beginning, I was excited and nervous about my first blog -- wondering whether people would find it funny or insightful. I tried hard on the blog, read it over several times, contemplated the messages and meaning behind the piece, and even had some of my friends proofread it for their opinions. However, as I've written more blogs and become more swamped by schoolwork, I have more respect for the blogging community. See I do NOT want to share my personal life, feelings, thoughts, and whatever opinions pop in my head. If I did that, I would want it to be 100% anonymous with no link back to myself. But I've seen that in order to make good blogs you have to do one of two things:
1. Write about something intellectually stimulating or interesting for all persons.
2. Write about your personal life.
Let's face it (ah, I can not believe I just used that cliche but I am keeping this anyway because it is more of a stream of consciousness than an actual piece of writing. But we all know that Americans and probably people everywhere (though I can not generalize for other cultures) LOVE our gossip. It is what gives our lives the subpar information which we fill our days with. Humans have such a need to be liked by others, I think it is an innate evolutionary trait which forces individuals of our species to grow close and reproduce. Which could explain why God made sex and love intertwined, but what a silly thing to do. I digress. Gossip. We all love gossip, even those who say they don't, do. So I've decided that if someone writes about a relationship or gossip which is interesting a "juicy" they can survive in the blogging world. A problem with this, is that you usually give away your personal beliefs on certain issues when you either support or criticize someone during your gossip rant. I do not want to do that, I value my privacy like every other American (and once again maybe other cultures).
Now let's address what the majority of my blog (or at least what I wanted the majority to be about) -- intellectually stimulating conversation which could help people realize other views. The great thing about this is that I CAN take a opposing side and argue it from an intellectual standpoint and still not tell anything about myself: except that I am a good debate/rhetorician. However, this is not possible with gossip. If I try to take on the persona of a senile old racist and defend them in gossip (to give one example) people will criticize me for that view on gossip. Intellectually, I could explain how people who are like that have been raised under a different value system than our own and it is hard to change set views. This would probably be a neutral argument, because it is just that: an argument rather than a personal opinion.
And so sums up my blog. I do not want to reveal anything substantial about me because if I'm running to be the next Supreme Court Justice and they find out I wrote a intellectual or gossip piece about support Communism or something I would be kicked out. Plus, I just do not fell anyone has earned the right to learn about the privacy of my life. So I would not want to post something personal on the Internet to have everyone to read unless it was anonymous. This is not, so I feel this blog will not continue past this current semester.
Blog #X (forgotten by now) completed for ENGL 102.
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