Thursday, April 24, 2008

Drifting in the Blogsphere

With this course drawing to a close, I have been asked to examine my blogging and what it means to me. If I had to pick one post that I would say resonates most with me and that I am most proud of, I would say it was my "We the People?" post on electoral politics. I think that I seemed really like I knew what I was talking about. I could hear my own voice in the writing, but I was still giving good facts that could keep the reader informed and thinking that I wasn't just making stuff up. I don't mean to toot my own horn or anything, but I thought I sounded rather witty. There you go, I said it. I like how, in blogging, people aren't talking to you face to face, so they aren't making the assumptions that may cause your arguments to have less value. Also, you have time to think up things to say that seem clever.
I wouldn't really say that I would have this blog with a specific purpose after this class. I would probably just use it when I felt like saying something about anything that I maybe didn't want to talk to with someone face to face. I wouldn't use it to critique the writing of others. I don't think that I am really in a position to do that, considering the fact that I am only a freshman in high school, and very new to this whole writing thing. I do enjoy ranting about societies flaws, however. Sometimes I just think I have completely lost my faith in society, in the fact that people are good. I just don't know what I used to think I knew for sure. The world is a confusing place.
I'm going to be brutally honest here. I don't know who my audience would be because I really don't think that anyone reads my blog. Out of the millions of blogs in the blogsphere, what are the chances that someone is reading my blog. I don't mean to be a pessimist, just a realist.

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