Along with the other pleasures of writing blogs (balance between challenge, skill, no fear of failure, etc), writing a blog can be like keeping an electronic journal. A journal is where one can document his or her private and at-the-moment feelings, feelings that you choose not to share verbally, express feelings without being judged, and express feelings with all honesty. If for some reason the writer chooses to make the blogs public and want to read what others think about their feelings, blogging is the best way to achieve that. No worries!! The writer can be anonymous, be familiar, be anyone they choose to be, and still receive honest feed back…good, bad, or indifferent. Sometimes, blogging can help a person relieve stress and stressful feelings.
No, blogging is not just for personal use. It can also be used for educational purposes. I feel it is important for educational leaders in today’s era of technology to expose his or her students to blogging because it is a very important writing space. I also feel it it is important for parents to learn about blogging because it is and will be a part of their children’s lives.
The first time I blogged was in my MSN writing space I blogged a poem that I wrote. I really enjoyed putting my thoughts down in an electronic writing space. I knew it was a possibility for others to read it and comment on it, but honestly I wasn’t really expecting it. However, the first time I received a comment I was completely blow away. It was a positive comment about how much they enjoyed my poem and how they could relate. After that, almost every blog I have written I received many many positive comments and very few negative comments. All that feedback – positive and negative – encouraged me to write more.
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Currently I have a Writing, Research & Technology class and we had to blog for a month with one of our projects. The first thing I asked myself was, what’s the purpose of blogging, because I really had no idea. My topic was depression, and the moment i started blogging, I realized why people blog.
Blogs create a sense of community for some people, and it’s not like a regualr community. In regualr communities, you can know everyone in the room, but it does’t always mean you feel welcomed. However, in blogs, the community is geared towards your specific interest and problems. And you may not know all the people there, but you do feel like you belong because the other people have the same interest.
Blogs also allow you to be interpersonal, because to a degree you get to interact with other people who again, share the same interest. When you’re in a community with people you know, but don’t have the same interest in, you tent to become intrapersonal because you have no connection to anyone but yourself.
Blogs are really useful, and can be looked at as a form of therapy.