--Originally published at Debugging My Mind
There was a lot of information to reflect upon today. Describing yourself, blogging for yourself or just even what things a blog can be used for, and how in the end, there’s no real formula or rule to go about what exactly to write in one, it ends up being a personal thing, a choice of whatever you wanna do with it, with all due knowledge of how to stay safe and what-not. (Special thanks to Laura Gogia, Lee Skallerup, Amy Burvall and Alan Lavine for today’s discussions about the topic).
A lot of social medias cover different areas; instagram allows you to share pictures and comment on them as far as I know (not one I use), facebook allows you to connect with friends, or in my case, privately message and manage groups for college (I really don’t like facebook). On the side of sites I have used more are for example twitter, where you can ramble about random things or post small short worded sentences, it’s quick and condensed and finally tumblr the one I use the most, where you can technically post anything, but comics, images and jokes are easier to manage there.
This is where having a blog differs, it’s a more personal place yet public place, an archived place where you can have from big reflections to small opinions or journals. One can argue tumblr is also a blog, since that’s what profiles are called in the site, but the difference is how it’s presented, through a dash, a quick scroll down method where you don’t really expect reading long posts most of the times, at least not me.
What would I use a blog for, one differing from my tumblr blog which I dedicate to art. Most likely I’d love to use it to discuss both technology and mainly videogames. I’d love to give my personal review and thoughts on games, something I feel can be interesting for people tired of the common big company reviews, which can get influenced by money and what not.
