What I Have Learned

In this unit, I learned about blogging. Blogging could be really fun for those who are creative, but it could be boring too. Honestly, for me, blogging is pretty boring because when you have zero idea about what to post it could be really exasperating, because you want your blog to be up-to-date or your followers will be decreased because they think you are inactive and will not post other things. But, I really like to choose the templates to make my blog interesting and some widgets that help enhancing the look of the blog. It really depends on your creativity anyway. 

By blogging, I knew other new information, expanding my connection to others. We can comment on the posts and make a useful conversation, express our voice or opinions to the world by posts from our own blog. For the first comment, it would be much better if we post a quality comment, which includes compliment, additional information, relate with the topic in the post, ask a question and finally proofreading your own comment! It will help us to understand more of the post and we could get online friends that are also interested in our comments.

Posts on blogs are actually viral, so everyone who has the connection can easily know read our thoughts and it’d be spread to the whole world. The problem is it would be really dangerous for us if our true identity such as full name, address or telephone number are given in our blog. There's an incident happens when a girl actually posted her self portraits and gadgets and she thoughtlessly wrote her full address, so one day someone broke into her house and stole all her gadgets. That's why we have to monitor our blog recently. This way, it also helps us to make sure that no one will comment or do bad things to us through our blog or information posted.

Well actually, blogging is only a way to share new information to others. In the past, newspapers and magazines are used to deliver facts and information, but now it all goes digitally through the Internet. From tips and tricks, facts, opinions and etc., we can easily spot them in Internet. Websites are similar to blogs, but the difference is blogs are not that accurate because most bloggers post unapproved information or things we don't know the truth. Probably in ten years, people are still using blogs as tools to deliver information and stuffs, but not as much as these days. People could effortlessly spread all information  and media (photos, videos, music, files, etc.) through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, or MySpace or sending files through websites like sendspace or mediafire. These examples do not have complicated procedure to sign up (not as complicated as making blogs) and the templates used in those media actually have smaller size of templates so when the connection is slow, they upload faster than in our blogs. They do have limitations, because they templates used do not show our creativity, since we couldn't add widgets or changing the cursor of our own page.

I could see my blog is actually good, with nice templates and various posts and also I voice my thoughts, but actually I do want to have a specific theme or topic for the blog, because not all people really fond to random posts. And that way, we could be more organized in managing our blogs. And also I have to improve my grammar A LOT and build a wider vocabulary to write my posts. I should cite the sources where I got the information or pictures or at least giving them credits, which I didn't do in all of my posts and try to comment more in others' blogs and be more active. I think that will be the way to improve my blogging skills.