Blogging about blogging

Academic Blogging: Reflect on the process of setting up a blog and/or discuss your role as a public figure contributing to the public sphere.

This hasn't been the first time I've set up a blog. The first time was probably about two years ago, when I probably thought that blogging would be "cool." I guess blogging was way too cool for me, because I never posted once, and I basically forgot that I had an account until two weeks ago, when I was automatically signed on to my old, lame account.

It's funny though, because the time that I thought blogging was cool, was the same time that I was pissed at everyone and everything (a major stepping stone in every teenagers life), which is much like road rage to some people. I thought it would be cool (past tense), but now I see the real meaning behind blogging. Please don't take this personally, but it's just a tool for helping unrecognized, pissed off, lonely writers to feel like people care about them, their writing, and what they think. But it's just a bunch of other unrecognized, pissed off, lonely writers who are commenting back.

Sure it can be fun at times, but who are we kidding? It’s not like Arnold Schwarzenegger is, hypothetically, going to search the internet and stumble upon one of my blogs on "The Cultural Impact of Advertising" (in which I develop a theory that states advertising will ultimately lead to suicide), causing him to critically think about they way he's governing his always-sunny California.

I don't mean to be rude to those who's lives revolve around blogging (and take great offense to my opinion), but it's how I see blogging. But I do understand that a person can progress from blogging (such as Perez Hilton has), and I don't underestimate every persons writing (it's most likely very well written); but personally, I don't feel as if I am contributing much to this "public sphere." Most of the students in my Mass Communications class at the University of Guelph-Humber (including me), would not be writing blogs.

It's not very important to me (aside from the fact that it's worth 50% of my final grade), but I understand that it may be the world to someone else.