My Blog Beliefs

If I was not asked to create a blog for a class, I would not be blogging at the moment, nor would I have my own blog-spot. For as long as I can remember my friend Danielle has had a livejournal account and I never liked it--and still don't. I guess I'm just not comfortable with sharing my personal thoughts with the entire Internet community and anyone willing to find out more about me (perhaps even a stalker?). Sure you can have a "fake" name, as I am just going by K for this blog, but in my eyes, that doesn't change much. I don't want to share my deepest, most darkest thoughts with blog readers--I want to share them with my real journal, the one I keep tucked away in my room that I write in the "old-fashioned" way--with a pen. There's that charm, that pure-ness, of just writing in your own journal--for me, it is the only true time I don't care about grammar and flow, I just get my thoughts out. I am my only audience. But with a blog, I feel like no matter how hard I tried, I would embellish facts and sensor other facts, and how excatly does that help to reveal my true thoughts and feelings?

Just like the facebook, myspace and all the others, blogging is just setting yourself up to be stripped of privacy. Before I was called for an interview at a clothing boutique I was "looked up on facebook." Because they thought I "was cute" and "sounded cool" I was called for an interview and eventually got the job. Of course, I didn't find this out until a month later, when we were searching facebook for a new employee. What if they had stumbled upon a blog of mine and read my deepest thoughts--the ones that reveal I am a little crazy? And this is just for a summer job--what if a big corporate employer was searching me, and all my qualifications were stellar except my livejournal?

I don't mean to fully dis blogs, becuase they do have some benefits. You can connect with people. You can find an audience of people who are willing to listen to you--and to read what you wrote. It's technology continuing to peak. For those who spill their guts on blogs, I give you props--you have much more courage than me. However, for the time being, I'm sticking to ink and paper that's hidden somewhere where you'll never find it.

Oh, and do I think blogs change the world? Not really. They may change people's personal worlds and they way they view their own world, but I don't think they change our world as a whole.