Welcome to Blogging!!

Thanks to Natasha's help I have managed to successfully create my own blog and respond to her blog. In the past I have had a blog on Livejournal.com. A website used as an online day to day journal. A few years ago I decided to join Livejournal because many of my friends had their own blogs. As I was new to blogging I decided to have my settings so that only my friends could see my posts. I began posting short blogs about how my days in school were and about my weekends. After a week or two I felt more comfortable blogging about my feelings, my outlooks on life, dreams, and even some poetry I have written. I mostly wrote in the first person, considering that it was a journal for myself to look back on in the future. To this day I prefer writing in the first person. I have always felt that writing in the first person makes the author more tangible to the reader. I feel the reader should be able to compare themselves not only to the events in a writing but also to the author. I found new ideas and perspectives from the blogs posted by my friends and always enjoyed reading new ones. After about two years of blogging on Livejournal I abruptly stopped. It had lost its charm. I log on to Livejournal whenever I feel nostalgic. I find it amazing how vivid all my memories of my posts are. I have become a better writer since then, but I still have more growing to do. In the recent past, before this class began, I made an account on Twitter. I decided to make one because I liked the idea of writing short updates about my daily life and being able to see my friend's updates. I only allow people who I know to follow me. I post updates about funny occurrences in my life, events, pictures of something interesting I see and more. Blogging is a great way to stay connected and to learn of new ideas. I plan to continue blogging until I am an old man and I can no longer keep up with technology.