My first Blog Post (PWR 2 E-Rhetoric)

Hello blog, or do you have a name? I find this to be a very strange medium, the blog, and I'm not quite sure what to write about. I always found the blog to be a little pretentious--I mean you are writing so that the rest of the world can see how you're feeling, what you're doing, or what you're currently thinking about. But I do see the value of blogging for the sake of keeping friends and family up to date with what is going on in your life; but in a way it seems that if you get too used to it, eventually you end up detached from the rest of the world. For some reason, I find the blog to be an intrusion of my privacy. I feel more forced to write in a certain way, and to reveal certain things about myself through this blog. Another question I have: What's with this "blog" word anyways, and it's even more questionable gerund form "blogging." I understand that the word originated from the word "weblog" and I find that to be a little less irritating than the this wannabe chic word "blog." Well back to the point, I never got into blogs because I got sick of watching my sister get so engrossed in "blogging" that it seemed to consume her life. It’s bad enough that you start pouring out your life and posting them for all to see, but once you get into blogging apparently you also develop simultaneously the habit of reading the blog’s of everyone you know! Perhaps it’s a personality thing, but I like to communicate one on one with people, through hand-written letters, e-mails, phone-calls or the old fashioned in-your-face chat. I will try to suspend judgment regarding the use of blogs for the purposes of this class, because I do see the value and perhaps the need for this communication media. Perhaps I will learn and gain something from this experience of being forced to communicate through this media. Perhaps I will grow to appreciate the "blog," and choose to integrate it in my daily life. Who knows?

Kevin ~out