A Risk.

The concept of blogging is challenging for me—I’ve never really liked it because I prefer to voice my opinion aloud than on the Internet.

The only social networking site I use is Facebook, and even there I do not post blogs or notes (I wouldn’t willingly read someone’s blog posts). I always found blogging to be pointless and I never read any type of blog. Whenever I browse the Internet and I stop at a blog, I immediately switch to another site. I am not too sure as to what exactly I don’t like about blogging although you never know until you try. In this class we are expected to set up a blog with a specific blog entries (it is worth fifty percent of our final mark). So far I have a few classmate’s posts to this topic and I found some of them very amusing. I am not only writing these blogs for my mark, but for myself. Who knows how the world may change by reading just my opinion. There may be another person who feels the same way as me and isn’t voicing their opinion.

I really enjoy networking and meeting people (usually in person) and this type of medium will allow me to introduce myself in a new way—it is healthy to change habits once in a while. The posts that I have read so far seem to have a lot of emotion and passion in them. I didn’t think there would be other people in the same boat as me, but there is, and this makes me a bit more comfortable with blogging.

Setting up the blog was simple—bringing myself to write the first blog was very hard. I didn’t know where to start! I just started to write whatever came to mind and then it all started to flow. As you can see I have considered trying something new in hope that it will benefit me in the future.

It is important to get involved in the community—contributing to the public sphere. I feel that my opinion is just as important as everyone else, even those who are prominent (government, actors etc.). There is no reason as to why I shouldn’t continue this blog, what will I lose? I believe I will gain more because people are bound to reply possibly with the similar views or opposing views. Like Neil Postman, I believe the role of a medium (the medium being the blog), is to create culture: "A medium is a technology within which a culture grows; that is to say, it gives form to a culture’s politics, social organization, and habitual ways of thinking," (Postman). Overall I think that taking risks and learning from other experiences are important. People will benefit from my point of view and I hope this blog is more than just words for people. I hope it gives insight and meaning to life.



Works Cited

Postman, Neil. “The Humanism of Media Ecology.” Address. Inaugural Media Ecology Association Convention. Fordham University, New York. 16 June 2000.