Blog 1: Creating a Blog

 Creating a blog was a short and simple process. There were two difficult parts of creating this blog. Thinking of a title for my page, and learning to write like a blogger. Professor Leake told us to try and make the name of our blog creative and fun.  I was about to suck up and make the title “Writing is Fun!”, thinking I would get extra credit for being enthusiastic about the class, but that was very unlikely. After fifteen minutes of hard thinking, I came up with the title “I Write Blogs”, simple and straight to the point.

 I don’t have much experience in blogging, but I know that blogging is a different style of writing. From reading other blogs, it seems that people are less formal; they tend to bounce around a subject and write whatever comes to their mind. Hopefully, by the end of this quarter I can learn to stay on subject to the questions Leake asks us to answer, but write in the style of a blogger. 

Facebook and Blogger can be related to each other. On Facebook, you never see a status update three pages long ranting about the Occupy protests. Instead, status updates are short and very rarely have important subject-matter. Facebook is used to connect with your friends and help you remember their birthdays. Facebook and Blogger do have some similarities, though. Both websites require you to have a profile which shares your interests, activities, favorite books/movies, and a picture of you. You are also able to comment on each other’s blogs/statuses. At first sight, it may seem that Facebook and Blogger have nothing in common, but once you create an account on Blogger you can see that they are very similar.

I have never had interest in blogging before, but after writing this first one, it’s pretty entertaining and I am excited to write on current events.