I Almost Got Away Without Doing This

I never wanted to do it. I've always been puzzled by those that do, and just when I thought I was going to get away without doing this, whoop, there it is! I'm a blogger now. Not by choice or birthright, but because I have to be (if I want to graduate).

It's not that I don't have it in me. God only knows I can definitely type away, ad nauseum, about most anything, especially things that get me fired up like the War on Terror, for example. Over the past few years, I've had a few moments in class (on the boards of my on-line classroom) where my multiple replies to one or several individuals bordered on a shortened version of War and Peace, especially when the subject was emotionally charged. I've just been able to avoid the facebook-twitter-blog social media frenzy that's emerged over the the past few years of posting every single mindless thought or brain fart that comes to mind, that I thought I was Scott-Free. "I just ran out of toilet paper and I'm alone at home." Really?!?! Who cares! "On my way to school, oops just ran over a pedestrian because I was texting and driving... : P...LOLxoxoxo!!!" What? While blogging is the more legitimate and respected of the social media forms, the bloggosphere is still saturated with profane, mindless, immature, rabid, over-the-top wanna be's that bring discredit to the medium. There, I got it off my chest.

On a serious note, this is one of the most interesting assignments, so far, in my college career. As a Communications Major I can appreciate the value of a tool like this. To be able, in a few minutes, to click a few settings and suddenly have a medium by which you can communicate with the ENTIRE WORLD is simply amazing. I would have to wonder how Plato would react to this modern marvel. Even Benjamin Franklin would have blushed at the prospect of an instant world-wide edition of Poor Richard's Almanac, or The Pennsylvania Gazette. So, here's to never saying never. I'm a blogger now. I kind of feel like when I smoked my first cigarette: what's the big deal...cough, cough, yack...!