Over the space of the past two weeks, I have been keeping a small, random and rather strange blog about nothing in particular called This Fever To Tell. I have blogged on a variety of topics, such as life as a dancer, my personal life, a movie review, and so on. I typically write in a sarcastic, mildly humourous tone. Part of the blogging assignment included advertising my blog and attempting to gain as many views and followers as possible. After posting links to my blog around four times onto my facebook account and harrassing my closest acquaintances to visit the page, I now have a marvelously grand total of four followers and four-hundred-and-eight-four page views. I'm quite satisfied.
Something I recently learned about was the 'Klout' concept, which is virtually a calculator of your personal imprint on the internet. This score includes traces you leave on sites such as facebook, twitter, tumblr, etc. The more influential you are to other people (a.k.a. the more you promote advertisements and social networking on a large scale) the higher your Klout score will be. Essentially, if you score in 50 or above, you are deemed considerably important, involved and influential. The Klout concept, to be honest, is completely inconsequential to me, yet my score is actually a 43. This is because of this blog, my tumblr account and my facebook account. In an article I read on the Klout site, actually, a man who was obviously well learned and perfectly qualified for a position he was being interviewed for was inquired about his Klout score. He had never heard of Klout and lost the position to someone with a high score. Judging a person based on their so-called influence on the web is completely ridiculous. What about qualifications? What about real-life experience? What about raw talent? What has happened to judging a person based on what they say and do, rather than what they type? I personally do not understand.
I find that, over the course of the past two weeks or so, my writing style has evolved and loosened, somewhat, to fit the casuality of the internet. I feel that I am not writing something terribly important and serious such as an essay and so often and comfortably use slang and informal terms. I have grown to enjoy blogging. If you look through my blog entries, you will see that there are several entries which talk about dancing. Dance has always been a significant part of my life, so it was only natural for me to want to write about it. I also reviewed the film, 'The Fifth Element'. This was at the teacher's request, however. My personal favourite was the entry I wrote classifying concert-goers. I received a great deal of feed-back on that entry, so I interpreted that that was most likely the most popular. That particular entry was inspired by my attendance at a concert a few weeks ago.
Anyhow, I predict that I will most likely continue blogging, to an extent, although I think that my focus will be primarily directed towards trying to publicize my own art. I hope to attend university for art and this is why modern-day technology is extremely useful. Regardless of the elements which make me want to say that I disapprove the concentration around technology in our society, there are so many things that we are now capable of doing because of it. Especially in the world of art and literature, blogging is an easy and convenient way of making a breakthrough which, only a decade ago, would have been far more difficult. The access we now hold in such a tiny handheld object to the entire world is truly incredible. Because of this, I must say that I rather like blogging. That is my final word.
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