This my last blog post. Once I've said it everything seems so
final. The year is almost over and I can still remember the first week of school as if it was yesterday. Surprisingly for me,
I enjoyed blogging about books I read and what I thought of them and how they
changed the way I thought about the world in general. In sixth and seventh
grade I hated the way that we kept track of our reading. It wasn't creative, it
was just tedious, and we weren't being asked what we thought of or learned from
the book. It was simply proof that we had been reading. I am really glad that
we were able to blog this year because it helped me to write about what I
thought and what I was thinking.
I have always been the kind of reader who,
when given a book could read it through in one seating if it's really good. I'm
a fast reader and I get absorbed in the stories, sometimes I won't even realize
what’s going on around me until someone actually tries to get my attention. But
it's different when I'm reflecting on a book that I read; I tend to go more
into what the story reminds me of, how I connect it to other things, or what
the kind of story in general makes me think of. I automatically veer away from
talking too much about the book in particular. I think sometimes it would
be better if I kept on topic a little more, but that's something that I'm just
going to have to work on.
Writing online is harder for me than
writing in a notebook because I know that it can be seen and judged by other
people. It would definitely be easier for me to write on a blog if my identity
was a secret. But for this blog, having my name and class and being open to my
teacher and other students, I think twice about almost everything that I write
because I care what people's reactions are going to be. I'm not sure if it's a
good or bad thing but it's there for now. For some people I think that writing
online would definitely be freeing especially under a pen name. When you're
writing online, you are in complete control of what people see. You are able to
edit everything before it is seen by others. But the other side is that many
more people can see your writing if it is online, that might be frightening
depending on how open your writing is and whether it can be traced back to you.
I think that some people take advantage of being anonymous and say harsh or
cruel things and I wish that people wouldn't do that. But other people portray
their best selves online, there's no strings attached and I think that helps
some people. Other people put stuff online that they shouldn't and they don't
seem to realize that it can affect them. Writing online can be different for
every person who does it.
There are a bunch of sites that allow you
to put your opinions and comments up for people to see. I think it is really
good to share what you think and hear what other people have to say. As long as
you are open to other ideas then I think it is really beneficial to be able to
do this. But some people use these sites to vent and put other people down.
It's wrong for people to do this and I don't think they should be able to do
that. There are other sites, like Facebook, where you show who you are. I think
these sites have their benefits but they are definitely abused. Some people say
things online that they would never say in real life. I think, that if there is
something you wouldn't feel comfortable saying to someone's face you should not
say it online.
I probably won't continue this blog, but I
might start another one. It would just have some of my stories or loved
websites and songs and links to other blogs that I like. It would be most
definitely be filled with fan art. It would be about the things that I love and
I want to share with other people.
Goodbye blog.
