Final Blogpost

     Its so sad that the year is finally coming to a close, but  i have had such a fun time doing blogs i enjoyed being able to write about the books that i enjoyed and didnt enjoy and having readers reflect and respond to the things that i had said.  In the begining i had a bit of a rocky start, because i was unsure of what to write and i really didnt enjoy writing about "charlottes web".  Through the process i learned all sorts of things about myself as a reader, i learned the books that i enjoy reading and the ones that i dont, and i also learned that instead of writing about the books i dislike i like to write about the ones that i do like.  The only problem is that i wish that i could improve on the blogs that i didnt like, because basically i wrote that i dont like this book, dont read it, and other nonsense like that.
     I think that i benefited a lot from doing blogs beacuse i feel that i have now grown as a writer and a reader, and i noticed that i try to incorperae what we learned in class into my writing.  i also dont read by skimming the book over now i really try to read inbetween the lines and try to find the symbolism that the author is trying to use and why the author is using it.  Sometimes when i have to write a blogpost at the end of the week i go back to my previous blogs to find the things that i liked in them and i try to the same thing.  But while looking through them i can see how much i have improved  over the year, in the begining my blogs were short and werent very meaningful.  And i am so grateful to be able to see how my writing was at the begining of this expirience and the outcome of it now.
     Writing online is so much more different than writing in a book because online there are other people viewing your posts and they expect something that is well delivered and proffesional.  But in my notebook i feel that i am writing for myself and i dont push myself as hard because there isnt that pressure of other people reading it on me.  i feel that being online can be liberating because you are able to write whatever you please and post the things that you want.  But on the other hand it could also be limiting because the things that you may write may not be appropriate for blogs and may offend other people that may be reading it.
     I dont believe that online we are ourselves, some people may be i dont feel thatr i am.  I do find myself creating a personality that is mature and proper and independent when i write my blogs.  But i do think that as teenagers we sometimes do abuse the freedom of not being ourselves online like on facebook.  Many people that i know have abused the power of being able to become someone that they are not, and saying things that they would never say in reality to that persons face.  Why they do it i am not quite sure but i believe that it is because they want to be able to change themselves into a person that they know that they are not.  Now doing that isnt a good thing, because you are not being honest to yourself and you are changing yourself into someone that is doing the wrong thing.
     I do see myself possibly keeping up this blog, maybe not as often but i will persue it.  In general my view of a blog is as an informer to the readers and helps educate them.  Thank- you Ms. Rear for letting us have the expirience of having an online blog :)