I was introduced to the computer when I was in grade 1. It was the year 1995 and at a young age, I had to memorize those ridiculous "C:/dir" (is that right?) and those "/exe" codes just to play those hello kitty games. Then there came windows NT which allowed me to explore my photoshopping capablities through the use of "picaso". Windows 97 and the internet came into my lifeand it opened a lot of doors for me (considering how few those doors could be with dial up connection). Since then, windows then never stopped innovating their "ever-so-popular" OS.
And to make the long story short, I stumbled upon "xanga". It is where I made my first ever personal blog. It contained a lot of angst and everything a teenager wants to shout about, that is why the moment I realized how stupid my entries were, I immediately abandoned (God bless you blog) that blogsite. I would never go back there EVER again. No I won't.
"Blogger" came second into my blog-life. Again, I wrote about life-- my life. But it was at that time when I was trying to explore or find my writing style. I was in college and everything was new to me. I felt independent and everything has to be written as PROOF of the freedom that I felt. But eventually, I said goodbye.
I just had to leave my blogger account behind as a sign of maturity and change. I "felt" ready to move on to another phase of my life and so into a new blog home. I fell in love with "livejournal". I have built my own community there, where I share things common and uncommon to people who share the same interest as mine.
And now, I am so done with college and I am gradually finding my way in the world of the adults. I never left livejournal ever since I started using it, but I made a new blog-- a political blog. I decided to create it using blogger (well hello there!) because it's easier to manipulate.
I never got tired of blogging and I don't think I will ever get tired of it. Maybe it's not just about blogging, it's also about social networking.
Somehow, people have come up with easier ways to do, use and create something. With the introduction of micro-blogging sites, people can now talk about their lives by the minute. We can now update our friends and relatives on what's latest real-time.
This micro-blogging gives so much, but do we even know how much does it takes away in return?
Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr, etc., all are easy to use. Just click, type a sentence, post a photo, import an audio or video clip, or even repost what has been already posted. There's nothing wrong right? Or there is?
Most people would say, "It just made all our lives easier". Yes it did. It did made our lives easier because we don't actually have to think about what are we going to write about. BECAUSE WE CAN JUST REPOST or REBLOG.
That is exactly my point. No offense to reposting or reblogging, because we all know it has its good side. I will not deny the fact that I do repost entries that I feel worth reposting. But as much as it is convenient for me, I try to limit myself from doing so because I feel as if it takes something away from me-- my drive to think and write.
Seriously, I am not trying to get into anyone's head here and impose on things, but will you let yourself be a "microblog-zombie" who just visits other sites, tries to find cute entries and repost them unto your site? Where is the individuality in that? How can you even call that "your personal blog", when almost everything you post is not even your ideas, photos, videos, etc.
In the end, I do not. I REPEAT, I do not condemn these sites. They are actually addictive to use. I just won't let it take away ME.
