Blog Reflection

Some ways that I benefitted from the experience are that I actually can type adequately now. More or less. And I could kind of finally learn how to just write something okay without having an enormous amount of time to revise and rewrite it. This probably helped me more than I realize because can sometimes be a perfectionist and a week or weekend is not a very long amount of time to write an essay. Writing online is very different than writing in a notebook because of the typing, as mentioned before, which I don’t think really helps me get my ideas out as well as just writing it, which I find to be a lot easier in just getting out what I mean. Probably because writing is faster. Besides that, everyone can see what you write. I guess in some cases this may motivate me to put some work into whatever I write. I hope so, at least.

When people write online many seem to project reality in a slightly different way online. Whether that is writing more without worrying as much who reads it because there are no people tell you directly what they think, or perhaps exaggerating reality, or leaving out the parts about yourself that the world doesn’t like, no one is the same online as in reality. Whichever thing they do, it is probably very true that people create personalities for themselves that they like more. That could mean that they believe that what they write online is more of what they actually think than what they say in reality, or the opposite and that writing to everyone on the Internet limits and revises everything that you would like to say for fear of sounding like something you don’t want to be. There are many times that the two choices can lead to similar outcomes. For me, I think that both are true. Because I revise these ideas and think a little bit more about what I am writing, I can consider the subject a bit more and maybe just pause to revise what I think based off of that. Anyhow, I like reality pretty well as it is (Though I suppose all of it cannot be fit into one blog.)

Teenagers sometimes abuse the freedom of being online on social media and such by using to fill other childrens' heads with mostly meaningless ideas and mush, in the form of pictures of reality distorted into the strange information found in the universe online, such as endless selfies focusing more on one’s self than what they are doing or the world around them. What is the point of taking a picture of just yourself when visiting the Statue of Liberty? That aside though, people tend to say things that they would never say to a person’s face, or in a different way. The directness of typing exactly what you mean may have something to do with that. People don’t feel like they will be held responsible for what they say online. The same sort of reaction as people yelling stuff from their cars. Most people will not walk up to a complete stranger blocking the entire sidewalk with a stroller, yell the same things they would if they were in a car and then walk away. That does not really happen. This may be a good thing, to state what you mean to say online. However, manners exist for a reason, and they cannot really be translated into this more direct way of communicating. People get hurt by insults, no matter how thick a skin, and some regulation of what we just type online is necessary. Consequences are easy to see when they are said to someone’s face, but something typed out to seemingly empty air is a little harder to register.