Loosing my (blogging) virginity

Saying that blogging is something I do on a weekly or even monthly basis would be a total lie since such a thing has never happened. I could even go further and reveal that I belong to the (boring?) crowd that even avoid “wall-posting” on Facebook. Don’t get me wrong, I do communicate with my people, I just prefer doing it through messages so that no one else except me and the receiver is aware of the content. Why would I want anyone else to read my thoughts? And for the same reason I don’t understand people who expose their whole life on different communities and blogs by adding photos and videos of themselves, writing wall-posts, comments, ideas and thoughts available to everyone, even to the people they don’t know! What happens to the integrity in our world? Is exposing some kind of new trend that more and more people start following? Or is it just a side effect of the new inventions like web-communities and blogs? Maybe people are just trying to keep up with this new inventions and the loss of their integrities is something that comes with it, or something they are not even aware of?

Furthermore this extremely exposing way of communication (aka blogging) seems all of a sudden to become a part of my reality! And not just because of Trendspotting & Future Thinking, but also because of Ideation (one of my other courses)! Two professors have two days in a row enlightened me with a simple message: “Blogging is da sh*t!” It’s cool, it’s modern, it’s innovative, it’s public, it’s trendy, everyone does it and you should as well! (Note, this is not really the language that the professors have used, just my own simplification.)

Well, knowing nothing about blogs (or trendspotting for that matter) even I can see that blogging seem to be something really trendy these days. Therefore I decided to do my own (very small-scaled) research at least to find out what it is, deep inside hoping to understand why it has become so popular and maybe even be able to describe the whole development process of a blog-trend in our society. But as we all know, even a small-scaled research takes time, which means that this will have to be the subject for my next post.

But as for now I’ll just see this post as my first step into (for me) a very unknown World of Blogging. This is my first entry, my first contribution, my first official statement on the Internet, public for other people to read and comment! Scary? Well, not idea, never done this before.. So I guess this is for me to find out…