Blogging creates window to self-discovery

By Caitlin Porter     5/14/09 7:00pm

Everyone should have a blog. In today's society, blogs are no longer hobbies of a few, but near-necessities for the majority. At the very least, it allows you to have good, quality "you time" with the computer while you write about your day. Your entries might begin with something like, "Dear Mr. Mac, Today I fed a squirrel and ." Ideally, however, you might discover something you did not know about yourself, like how deep down, you are a sex-crazed egomaniac. And as college students, aren't we all about self-discovery?

Perhaps your roommate has been all "up in your grill" recently, and you need a place to vent. Maybe school is getting you down, and you need a reprieve from all your work. Or maybe you're just bored, looking for a good time that doesn't involve breaking any laws. With [Insert Clever Name Here] blog, you have your very own space, where you can vent, relax, or entertain yourself all you want.

Fair warning, though - a blog is not your average diary that you can covertly keep locked up in a drawªer somewhere. Even if you end up forgetting about that awkward experience you had at the '90s party, the Internet will not, and neither will Google or any other search engine your blog happens to be associated with.

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Assuming that having your personal stories and opinions plastered all over an infinite space until the ultimate demise of the Internet is appealing to you, here are a few helpful words on how to make your blog a success.

To begin with, you need a catchy name that is easy to spell and easy to remember. Perhaps something like "Strawberry Cup-Kate" or "Martel is My Hot, Hot, Sex" would be appropriate.

You should also post entries to your blog on some sort of regular basis or else your groupies may lose interest.

If you are still not convinced, I have a few more not-so-subliminal messages meant to persuade you to start your blog today. For one, if you are a procrastinator, a blog will provide you ample opportunity to delay work on that ensuing orgo exam, while still allowing you to be somewhat productive. After all, some of the most brilliant people in history have come up with their ideas during long episodes of procrastination (Leonardo da Vinci, anyone?).

Or perhaps what is holding you back from creating your very own blog is simply that you don't know what you will write about. Read a few of your friends' posts and it will quickly become apparent that no one has anything truly worthwhile to write about, And since no one else has any problems publishing their ironic lives, why should you?

If you are human, you are exactly the type that should be blogging. As individuals living life, our common purpose is to learn and evolve through self-realization, self-discovery and shared experience. As my initial argument ran, self-discovery is an inescapable result of blogging, because you are writing about yourself for yourself. It's like looking in a mirror. Blogs are almost an entirely selfish act - they feed the ego.

Feed your ego. Start your blog today.

You know you want to.

Caitlin Porter is a Martel College freshman.

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