Then I got to college and everyone 1.) read blogs and 2.) wrote blogs. So I started reading blogs. Whether personal blogs that people write in the spare time or political blogs off of main webpages, I read them. And then I wanted to blog, just like everyone else. Then I went abroad, and I finally had something interesting to blog about! And I tried to continue it, but I realized that I was boring. But I always had an itch to blog. Then I started taking this class (#smpasocial for you Twitter people) which has now required me to blog.
However, I wish I woulda known that you don't have to blog in college.
It's kind of weird, you might be thinking, because obviously I'm this great blogger and I am getting 10000s of hits a day (which is lies, by the way. I'm not). But you may think it's weird because blogging isn't really a big deal anymore so why do I wish I woulda known that I don't have to blog?
Well, my friends, because just that - blogging isn't a big deal anymore. Anyone and everyone can start one, and it's not something that really adds much to peoples' lives. Yes, I like the blogs I follow on my Googlereader (Date Me D.C. is hilarious and Small College Kitchen gives great cooking tips for college students), but I don't think that I would be worse off without them. I don't think that I'd have a void in my life.
Honestly, I probably would be more productive if I wasn't a blog reader and a blogger myself. I'd probably spend a lot less time on the internet and more time doing homework and being out in the world. Or it could be spent on Facebook, but let's just think that wouldn't happen.
I guess that I wish I woulda have felt the need to blog because everyone else did, but that I wanted to blog for myself, regardless of who was reading. I like to write, and it's definitely a great creative outlet, but at the end of the day it's a fad that I followed, and not something I came up with on my own.
At least I have a creative topic for this blog though, right??
Always,
Caroline
"Unwritten" is by Natasha Bedingfield.
I don't know, I think blogging is a really important part of participating in Web 2.0 culture, honestly. And I think it's about branding. And so I may disagree with you. Spending oodles of time on the interwebs, that's another thing...
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