A Blog about Blogging....

This blog is my first experience with blogging and although I think the concept is useful, I would not choose to continue blogging in the future, unless required as part of a grade. It's not that I don't think blogging is useful, but it's not useful for ME.

I think that the point of blogging is expressing yourself. Everyone is different about how they want and need to express themselves. Years ago I would have been absolutely in love with the idea of blogging, it's like an online journal! I was the queen of journaling, always writing down my feelings and ideas. I also enjoyed writing poetry quite a lot and participated in online poetry forums. But I just sort of out grew that whole phase of my life.

Now I would much rather TALK with someone about my feelings and ideas in person than write them down in the off chance that someone will comment, or just write them to get them out of my head. I think that this has a lot to do with my relationship. I would much rather talk to my fiance or my sister, whom I can tell ANYTHING. I think that I'm very fortunate to have people to talk and share with and that for others who do not have that kind of support in their lives, blogging may provide sort of an anonymous support system and allow your voice to be heard when it otherwise would not.

I also find it incredibly hard to keep up with all of the different methods of communication now a days. Email, text messages, facebook etc, it's just too much for me! Give me ONE method of communication and I can manage, but when I've got texts on my phone, emails at my personal and school email addresses, and phone calls to return and facebook to keep updated...the last thing I want is a blog to deal with!