First Blog Experience

I am going to be honest, when I first heard about the fact that this class would require us to blog and find a blog and do whatever else with blogs I was not happy. I am a very anti-blog person because my mother, would always tell me “Don’t care about what other people are saying unless it directly affects you.” So what I got out of that was don’t really care about other people’s opinion if it is on unimportant topics and I did not think my personal viewpoint of blogs would change after this assignment.

After reading Sullivan’s essay and reading this sports blog, however, I had a whole new world open up to me. The seemingly endless knowledge that came out of this site about baseball players, football scores, and any other big sports occurrence was quite eye opening. I learned a lot of new facts about my favorite football team, the New York Giants, and I read some comments from followers that really got me into the idea that blogging was a great way to learn about the world’s view on a topic. As I kept looking at this blog, sbnation.com, I found that there were some sports that I thought nobody even truly cared about. I did not know that people would be commenting on blogs about minor league baseball and/or mixed martial arts fights.

            This website was a gateway to over 300 different blogs made up by writers, sports fanatics, and everyday people. All I had to do was click on one of the 322 links and I could be receiving updates and opposing viewpoints on any sports event. Whether it was a trade between baseball teams, final putt in a golf match, or the reigning world MMA champion being challenged to a cage match, I could find it and read what people think about it. Yes, some of the comments were ignorant and mundane but overall I was intrigued and wanting to know more.