Final Blog

Blogging has taught me a lot of things about myself as a reader. Blogging has taught me that reading at any level can be turned into a deeper level of thinking. The book and the amount of thinking you can do on it are not relying on eachother. I've read a variety of levels of books and blogged about them and the thinking I did on all were deep level thinking.

Writing online was a good experience for me because it can be liberating. Writing online can get what you want to say, out to a bigger audience that is harder to achieve in person. Writing online makes it easy to flow the thoughts you want to share with the world. However, writing online can also be limiting. Writing online to an audience means that almost anyone can view what you are putting into the world, and everyone can have different views on the world. Writing online is limiting because sometimes your opinion is not appropriate for society and isn't socially acceptable. Writing online can also be limiting because offending someone is something you want to avoid. I personally haven't run into anyone saying my blogs were offensive but an argument about the content of your blog isn't something you want in the comments.

I think that writing online can differ from who you are off of the computer. Writing online makes me feel like I have a clean slate. Sometimes things I say on my blogs contradict what the real me would do in a situation my character faces. I think it's just being online that makes us feel like we can say whatever we want. I think blogging is a very personal thing and because we don't know when our blog is being viewed we sometimes feel as if they aren't and that anything we say will be out there, so we're relieved; but not seen, because no response is given.

Lastly, I think that people say things that they wouldn't say face to face with someone. I feel like people use the computer and the internet as a place to hide when they want their opinion to be expressed in a way they know isn't going to go down well with others. People use computers as cover because nothing on the internet can have consequences that we see outside, and that is the biggest problem.