‘A blog is not writing, it’s grafitti with punctuation’
I’ll be honest with you. The thought of starting my own blog has crossed my mind before; a niggling idea that’s flashed in some region of the brain whilst staring wistfully at others’ virtual creations. The inspired sentiments of these viewings often ranged among: ‘Oh if only I was as funny/as stylish/as creative as him/her’ or better still ‘I could do loads better than this load of rubbish’. But the reason I haven’t started one until now (despite being incredibly lazy) is that I just can’t help but find them slightly pretentious, precisely because they create the sort of judgments I have crudely made above. There seems something odd about the way we now feel the need to update the world wide web of our goings on. Would anyone actually care what I wrote on here? (seeing as I only have one follower on here- Tumblr- I doubt this is really a concern)
Now, this isn’t true for all- art and music blogs are among my daily reading and the importance of blogs for up to date news cannot be emphasised enough. And this is the reason why, in a third year’s panic dash to the careers centre (so what exactly can you do with an arts degree then?!) I was told to utilise social media for all its worth. Use Facebook to search for job opportunities (WHAT?!!!), get a twitter…and more importantly, start a blog. So, because of aforementioned panic, I blindly followed this advice and it’s providing to be quite fruitful so far. I now have a total of 14 followers on Twitter (taking the internet by storm I’ll have you know) and facebook is being lovingly consistent in supplying me with recent job opportunities along with status updates on how annoying Frankie from X Factor is. I mean, now I even get to see who is reading what article on The Guardian and who is listening to what song on Spotify…wonderful!
So here it is. The last piece of the puzzle- my blog. A virtual ‘space’ to put all my writings/ramblings/reviews in one peaceful place. Don’t expect much. It took me about three days to work out how to change the title, and after deciding that I quite liked the ambiguity of ‘Untitled’, I managed to work whatever technological prowess I possess to change the name to something really quite bland and generic. However, if I’d mulled over a title for much longer, this blog would never get started, and I would have to kiss any dreams of bagging a job in this 21st century social media driven world goodbye.
