Yeah, it's a little crude, but it's the first thing I thought of when I decided to write this entry about blogging. I can honestly say that I was very impressed by this week's reading. I was one of the people talked about who didn't like blogs. I still don't really understand blogs. Sure, I write in it and other people read it and comment. So what? Why do I care if a small audience finds my personal life interesting? Why should I tell them about my life anyways? Honestly though, this reading has completely convinced me to make a real blog after this semester is finished. I'm not sure how much I'll update it, or what I'll put in it, but I apparently need to seriously try making one before I write it off as stupid. Meg's article was particularly interesting to me. Her and Jason are internet celebrities now. And it's just because they write stuff on their blogs!!! How crazy is that? Not that I expect to become famous across the intrawebs overnight or anything, but it certainly would be cool. But that's not my real motivation for writing a real blog. I'm not that vain. I really just need to try it for the sake of trying it. I suppose I've written it off as a sort of feminine thing. I mean, it's the equivalent of diary, isn't it? Except now you can have a crowd of people to react to it. Now I think I've reached the root of my problem, the people. I keep picturing this crowd as the part of the internet I avoid, flaky teenage girls. The kind who clutter their facebook pages with every stupid app they can find. I know those people would revel in showing off their lives to the world. The people who post on Gaia forums and think Neopets is the best game ever. AHHH!!! See! Look at me!!! I'm making horrible generalizations about this! This is why I really need to make a blog! There's a 90% chance I'm being an elitist moron and there's a great community out there!!! You know what? I'm shortening the time limit. Next week, I need to get a blog. Right after my ENGR 126 exam, I'll make one and it will probably be great.
Well, that's all about blogs that i have to say for now. I must admit that I am extremely excited about the meme stuff that we're getting into, simply because I'm a meme addict. I've been on every major meme to strike the internet since peanut butter jelly time. Most memes don't make it off the internet, that's why you have to stay clued in at the places where they're born. Message boards, youtube, image boards. All the places where they spread to first. Honestly, I'm very impressed with youtube as of late when it comes to good memes. We've got chocolate rain and the dramatic chipmunk in a relatively short time span, and they've both surfaced to real life. Just incase you somehow managed to miss them, here's the videos.
Peace out.
P.S. If at any time our wonderful, kind, and very intelligent professor thought she might be included in my description of bloggers, she is horribly mistaken! I did not at any point mean to include her in that category! That is all.
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