And the Curtains Close

I cannot say that I enjoyed blogging. I prefer more traditional approaches to teaching and blogging sure isn't one of them. Blogging differs from writing in a notebook in many ways. Some of which being:

1. Blogs are harder to access because not everybody has the time to come in during Zero Period, not everybody has a computer and because not everybody has consistent internet connections.

2. Blogs make one's work much, much more dispensable. My blog is a blog amongst thousands of other students' blogs. All of these blogs can be deleted with the click of mouse. I'm confident that I'll forget about my blog and the blogs of many others in due time. There is something special about writing an entry in *my* notebook with *my* pen. Destroying my work becomes a physical act whereas the deletion of my last week's post was done nonchalantly while watching anime and browsing reddit.

3. When on the internet, people become much more lenient in regard to spelling and grammar (particularly capitalization and apostrophes).

4. I only like reading the work of young teenagers when it's well-written or when I'm editing it heavily. Both of these things were rather rare.

5. While I like the idea of commenting on the work of others' (heh... secret editing), I was disappointed in the comments that were made. Basically, due to #1, people often felt rushed while writing/replying to blogs which led to #3 and #5.

I highly doubt that I'll continue my blog. I think that blogs ought to be reserved for people who are abnormally average or are curiously unique or exciting. I don't feel that I do anything in life worth blogging about. My reading life is not particularly special and I'd rather not share my thoughts with the public.
This blog did reinforce my opinion that non-fiction should be read for facts and if you're looking for metaphors you ought to go read some metaphysical hogwash.
But, one thing that I really, really disliked about blogging was the lack of privacy. I like to read things (this goes from the poems that people write as shameless children to memoirs from 6th grade) in order to find out everything about people. I often sit quietly and listen intensely to conversations; picking up every ounce of personal information dropped. I don't care to gossip and I despise drama so I save up all of these bits of information for the sake of my amusement. While I like doing this to others I don't like it when anybody else knows anything potentially worth knowing about me. Blogs are too public for my liking. I don't want people to know my name, my thoughts, the school that I go to or the class that I'm in. This is probably because I'm paranoid but it's mostly because I don't like giving people the opportunity to start conversions with me.

I'm sorry if this post of particularly cynical. And, Ms. Rear, if you're looking for positive feedback I will say this-- be sure to be strict about grammar, spelling and punctuation in regard to the blogs.

And, with that, I bid AwaketheGomer farewell.