My Time as a Blogger

Throughout the semester, I have blogged for this Internet Studies class. At first it felt a little weird to make posts to the Internet, where it didn't seem like anything I wrote was going to matter. It was like I was typing to myself, only no one was ever going to respond, like an online, open diary or something.

The blogspot website is extremely easy to use once your blog is set up as you'd like. There were so many options for the layout, background colors or themes, fonts, etc. of all the different aesthetics for the blog itself. My favorite blog posts from the semester were articles or videos I found that had information that surprised me. For instance, I never would have guessed that there is a festival where all of the cat enthusiasts of the Internet gather together to dress up, watch videos, and do all types of crazy cat-related activities. There was so much I didn't know about the Internet before this class, and through exploring the web for articles to help with my blog, along with the readings and class discussions, I learned more about the Internet than I realized there was to learn in the first place.

My advice to future bloggers is to write about what interests you. I think it is clear when someone posts about what they are interested in vs. a completely boring article that they didn't actually read, but simply found and posted to their blog. I think that blogging about any topic is beneficial, especially for this class because it allows you to explore and find things on the Internet that you may not have researched, or found otherwise. I would tell students to set aside a time every week to blog, because I know I did that, and it helped me save time, and be responsible with time management.

I really enjoyed writing the blog for this class because I researched topics that I was interested in, and I would recommend that other students do the same. I learned how to embed videos, which I didn't know how to do before, and I learned all of the information that was dictated to me through the videos as well. My main advice is to just blog your hearts out kids. It's easy, rewarding, and can oftentimes actually be really fun!