Reflection

                As a new blogger, I had no expectations about blogging for this class. However, my blogs and the blogs of my classmates have given me interesting perspectives into how blogging works. Mostly, I was surprised about how easy and open the communication in blogs is compared with other forms of writing. I have grown to respect the place blogging holds in the literate world. However, blogging for a class produces its own challenges. Having these frequent posts that are not as formal as a paper, but still need to be formal enough for a classroom makes it difficult to find the right balance. Every post of mine varies on how formal it is. Another challenge to blogging for this class is it adds another audience – my classmates. This puts on different kinds of pressures than just giving the paper to a professor because I don’t want my posts to seem boring or unintelligent. Obviously, I care if the professor thinks I am boring, just not as much as I care about my classmates thinking that.

                I have found it most interesting how similar our web surfing was and how it contributes to writing. With the limitless types of music, shows, and activities that people participate in and make us so unique, the internet – which made the vast number of these things possible – also brings us together so that we do have a unified popular culture like all the other generations before us.

                Although I have become aware of my web habits and have read several articles on the consequences of these habits on reading and writing, I have not changed my ways. I do have a better understanding of why people think our generation is stupid or brilliant, but I feel like my habits do not contribute to or prove one side or another. In other words, I do appreciate each side of the good versus evil aspects of the internet, but I’m not going to change what I do on my computer.