My primary motivation for having a blog is curiosity. I am aware of two kinds of blogs: personal live journals and web logs of social and political commentary. I know about live journals from my students. I have always thought that is was strange to post your intimate thoughts on the World Wide Web but at the same time I see the appeal. Reading political blogs, I am impressed with the amount of opinions available but equally amazed at the lack of thoughtfulness. There is a lot of "heat, not light" as Dr. Vicky Weiss might say.
I am not sure if the practice of publishing one's thoughts and feelings is self-expression or narcissism. And I am not sure if I want to bear the responsibility of transmitting my e-personality around the world. What if I don't have anything important to say? And there is the small issue of the halo I must wear as a public school teacher.
--Tizzzle
1 comment:
so i thought i would take the liberty of being your first commenter on this new adventure of yours. i think its a good idea and i don't think it's narcissistic enough to matter. i suppose anything in which you are writing your own thoughts as if everyone will care is narcissistic, but i find that it's more a release for the individual than it is a cry for attention.
so i guess what i'm trying to say is, don't be one of those people who does it for the comments. those people are sell-outs, slash just not cool.
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