Blogging as a way to find news, get a job, have a conversation or grow as a person is a concept very foreign to me. I think they’re calling it a digital native but all I know is that I totally grew up with this stuff. I’m young enough to just not remember dial-up. I’m young enough to have been playing Tetris when I should have been learning to ride a bike. I’m young enough that I already had experienced blogging by the time I was 13 and I’m young enough to have already been over it.
Of course, my big problem is that I keep associating the blogging I should be doing now with the blogging of my youth. I hear the word blog and I immediate think of Taking Back Sunday lyrics, novella length posts about how I broke up with my first boyfriend and entire posts that were made up of nothing that can be categorized as english.
But it is time to move on. I mean, I was born into this fast-paced environment and this is no different. It is time for me to realize I can do some pretty cool stuff with the tool that I abused for a few years in my youth. Mark Briggs discusses all of the different amazing ways that blogs can be used and he is just one of the innumerable people who are either boasting the great aspects of blogs or doing incredibly things with blogging themselves. I’d love nothing more than to count myself as part of that team.
I suppose it’s time to quit playing Tetris and start doing some real work. If I could learn that lesson when I was ten, I should be able to now. Especially considering that the work is so fun. Instead of reporting for a traditional news outlet of any kind… I get to report for myself. The idea of blogging is so powerful because it is still, at the end of the day, a type of diary. I guess you never really escape your childhood.
