The Beginning

Welcome to my blog! Although I am not a huge fan of blogs, I think they are great for media type classes. Blogging makes me feel like an opinion column writer. This is the second blog I have created for a media and news class. My first blog I created for my college class that I took my senior year of high school. I’m not a fan of blogging because I don’t always like to state my opinion. But, hopefully that will change throughout this course. I am open to new thoughts, which will be good when reading my classmates blogs. But one of my weaknesses is that I don’t like to receive criticism. When comparing Facebook to a blog, they are very similar. Not only could I waste a lot of my time on here by customizing my blog layout, the content is also similar. When I am updating my status, it is like a diary. I’ll talk about how great a movie was or what a wonderful day I had. Sometimes I will even state my opinion on a subject or talk about a problem I am having. A status is a shorter version of a blog and a blog is a shorter version of a newspaper article. It is funny how thoughts are progressively getting shorter and shorter in length. But, by saying this, I would much rather read something short in length and to the point. Blogging is a nice way to get your thoughts out. But if the writer is not careful, the post could end up as a rant. The writer does not have to think much about what they are going to say, just type. I like this kind of writing because it is easy to do and anyone can do it. My hope for my blog is that the reader will receive a new insight and view the subject matter in a new light.