Blog Reflection

     During the past year of writing and reading blog posts about so many different books, I've learned a lot of new things, and read more books than I can remember. It was hard to maintain such a vigilant reading schedule to be able to finish one book every week, but it was rewarding in that it taught me a lot about what kinds of books I like, and what kinds of books I don't, among other things.
     I learned a lot about myself as a reader throughout this year, such as: learning that I liked sci-fi a lot, learning that I liked fantasy a little, and learning that long books can be read really fast if I put my mind to it. This will help me in my life, because I will find more enjoyment in reading than I have before this year, because now I know what books I like. I also learned that the more I like a book, the faster I finish it.
     Writing online is different from writing in a notebook, because pretty much anyone can read it without necessarily knowing you, and you wouldn't know if someone were to read it. Also, in a notebook, for me, it's harder to write down what I want to write down, only because of the limited amount of space and my bad penmanship. Online, I have an unlimited amount of space and perfect penmanship to work with, so the only thing I have to worry about is what I'm writing.
     Writing online, especially anonymously, can be liberating in that you can write whatever you want and not have to think about the consequences. There is nothing that I can mention that is necessarily limiting about writing online, although the liberation that writing online provides can be used for bad things, like cyber bullying or something along those lines.
     I think that it depends on the person whether or not they are real online or not, and where they are posting on the internet. For instance, if I'm on Facebook, I'm pretty much myself, because I know just about everyone that is friends with me on Facebook, but on a site where I know no one, I may not be myself. For me, it really depends on how many people I know, because I might feel uncomfortable acting normal in a group of strangers.
     Teenagers definitely abuse the freedom that sites such as Facebook provide us. We type things we wouldn't say to people's faces, mostly mean things. This is a bad thing, because it can make people feel really bad about themselves, and might push them over the edge. For instance, there was this Irish girl who came to America, and went to high school here, but was cyber bullied by so many people that she eventually committed suicide.
     I can't really imagine myself keeping up THIS blog, but I can imagine myself creating a new one. It would probably be about something like video games or movies.