Fitting First

I’ve never “blogged” before, I’m not quite sure I know what I’m doing but I’ve been assured that it’s not too difficult. I was a little nervous to start a blog. Whenever I thought about blogging for some reason I see my college neighbor Chris; he wears those huge ray bands glasses that make him look like a hipster. I see him sitting at my old wooden desk but he’s not in my room, he’s not even in my house. The room he is in is lime green with one metal desk lamp shinning on the corner of the desk. The strange thing is he isn’t typing on a laptop, or one of those flat screen desktops, he is typing on the old off-white computers with the monitors that looked like a robot’s foot from the side and a mini TV from the front. And for some reason Chris’ face is obnoxiously close to the screen of the monitor; nose on glass action. In my head is see Chris using his right index finger to type something you would find in a break up letter between warring countries; YOU WILL SURRENDER MY IPOD, AND MINI FRIDGE FOR YOUR ALLIANCE WITH THE REPUBLIC OF CHAD. THE GENOCIDE OF YOUR BELONGS WILL IMPEDE AFTER YOUR COMPLIANCE WITH THESE TERMS IN THE NEXT 72 HOURS. IF NOT I WILL BURN ANY SURVIVING CLOTHING RESIDING IN MY TERRITORY. TREASON’S A BITCH. In reality Chris has a blog but he made it for his communication class; I have no idea what he uses it for. I think that I visualize him when I think about blogging because I always think that bloggers wear large glasses. Obviously my ideas on blogging do not reflect the true blogging experience.

  *I see a foot*

So what do you do when you’re unsure about something? Consult your doctor if you are experiencing light-headedness, and the inability to pronounce words that are synonyms for “easy” such as:  simplification. Doctors are expensive so I asked my mom, who told me to ask my friends who were incredibly vague; “You just write what you want and you don’t get in trouble for it. Now will you let me finish Game of Thrones?” I thought I was lucky when we covered blogging in Writing for the Media, but it just made it worse. There is blogs about everything from plants to technology, from wine to water, big issues, small issues, the issues that need tissues, and issues with a fish blue.

Racism, Sexism, Terrorism, Tourism it’s all up for grabs. I wanted to do some additional research to narrow down the craft of blogging so I decided the only reasonable resource for a problem like this is Wikipedia, 1) Because they share the fraternal bond of internet resources that people mistake for fact, 2) I just finished finals and I’m gonna be lazy cause I’m a senior. Holla back. (notice I’m so lazy I didn’t even spell “because” correctly in that declarative sentence). Wiki-wack drops the beat on seven types of blogs:

1)      Personal Blog  <- I be up on that

2)       Microblogging  <- essentially Facebook, Twitter. I didn’t know I was already a microblogger.  I feel like a boss.

3)      Corporate/organizational Blogs <-Marketing, and extending the communication of an organization or corporation. My bro does something like this. He is also a boss.

4)      Genre Blogs <-pick something write about it, get busy, and unlike my Pandora Beyonce station, be consistent.

5)      5-7 are a couple of blog types that I’m not interested in talking about. I did say I was feeling lazy. But here’s a link to the Wikipedia types of blogs definitions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog#Types

I think the most important thing I’ve learned about blogs is that you can’t say whatever you want. You shouldn’t make up stories about celebrities and create a spin-off bible series like How I Walked on Water, or 11 in Counting. It’s mean and nobody wants to get sued, “or worse expelled” (Hermione Granger).

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