Andrew Sullivan really opened my eyes to the world of blogging with his article “Why I blog”. Before the concept of blogging never seemed complicated or deep. However, after reading nine pages of his opinion about blogs, my idea of posting online for the purpose of expression and publishing of myself became kind of liberating, like Sullivan suggested. As well, Sullivan’s expression of blogging being a spontaneous expression of instant thought that has no borders or restrictions warmed my thoughts about becoming a blogger. Not only did this article show me that the idea of posting one’s thoughts online for the public can be liberating, but also it is kind of a step down from a personal diary that forms relationships with the people that follow you. All of these aspects and more, I feel are the reasons of why Andrew Sullivan finds so much enjoyment in blogging. As well, he expressed his opinion about how being a blogger is better then being a reporter, columnist, and novelist; for the reasons of having free-form writing, being in a more accident-prone genre, being able to write less formally, and you develop more of a personal relationship with your readers. However, I feel the number one reason Sullivan feels the need to blog, or initially had the need to blog, was to have a presence “online”. With have a presence online, people get to find out what he is about and get to critic his work, like he explained, “blogging is kind of a community effort,” in the aspect of people writing on his blog with links, stories, and facts to help improve his stories. I feel he likes that people out there on the internet know more about a topic that he writes about, and I feel he appreciates that people care enough to express themselves.
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