Elizabeth McDonald’s Weblog

I seem to be still living somewhere circa 1995. While I love the internet and use it now more than I watch TV, I still can’t come to grips with blogging. It is like having a diary or journal, but online…where everyone can read it.

But who does read it? No one really…except for my two lecturers, and possibly nosey people in my class. Oh and today I got a comment from a stranger, which was rather exciting!

I’m afraid when it comes to diaries I’m an old fashioned kid who likes to write in a book, not on the internet. What is it that makes so many people create a website, then write random things in it for other people’s benefit?

It’s funny I’m saying this as I am firstly writing a blog, and secondly thinking about how many professional blogs I read. I’m also thinking about what we learnt probably in first year, that blogs are a good way of neworking and creating an online personality for yourself for potential employers. Now this is ultimately shutting down my whole argument about how I don’t understand blogs. HHmmm…