First Blog Post Ever

I know that lots of people set up blogs to work as a public or private place to post their opinions but I have never had the urge to subscribe to one, let alone write one of my own. Therefore, I don’t know a lot about this type of communication method but it seems to me that it is like an extended version of Facebook where someone can comment and view my statuses per their leisure. Creating a blog required all of the basic information that Facebook does, however it didn’t ask me for my gender nor age because in theory, that shouldn’t matter in the wide world of the Internet.  Blogger does differ in the area that I was allowed to customize my page more that the cookie-cutter Facebook profile, almost reverting back to the old MySpace profiles.

Surprisingly, the most difficult part of this blog’s birth was naming it. I could have penned a catchy title for an otherwise mostly uneventful blog, such as thinkwritereview.blogspot.com but all of the potentially creative titles eluded me at the moment of this blog’s creation so I defaulted to my name. Luckily, Google has conveniently allowed users to change both the name and the address of their blogs at my own discretion.

With my poor knowledge on how a traditional blog functions, I have held the assumption that blogs were for people with lots of important things to say. However, after browsing through a couple, I have discovered that they can be about any topic and any subject. They range from formal publications (less common) to the informal happenings for millions of people around the world. In the end, I suppose that blogs allow people to express their emotions in whichever way they prefer and that is all writing. It may not be the high school level writing that we grew up attempting to learn, but all of these manners of expression create their own value for each post.

           

That is all for my first post. Until next time!