Today I started a new blog! Blogging is not new to me, in fact I first started way back in 2008. The drive initially was to hone my writing skills and share stuff with friends and students. I then moved on to develop further and created a few sites hoping that they would grow.
I have little success and there are not many visitors to my website so far. Sometimes it really dampen your spirit when you see how much work you have done so far. Until I saw a share on Facebook yesterday talking about a mother in the US whose blog has gone viral when she wrote something about child bullying. I went on to see her blog and was delighted to find out that she is just a normal person like me with a full time job and a family. If a mother of 2 could do it, there is no reason why I can't. It lifted my spirit once again and that pushed me to start a new blog to document the experience I gain and challenges I face trying to survive in a new country away from home.
Blogging sometimes could be think of as a very lonely exercise. You feel like you are talking to yourself. Unlike sms or online chat where you would always get a response from what you write, with blogging you write on the blank space of your Blogger's interface without any response. You may get a comment or two when someone sees your post months or even years later.
However, blogging could also be fun when I think that I actually have the opportunity to communicate to almost anyone around the world with issues that I am concern about. People that share similar views may read about my post in the middle of the night when I'm off working during the day. My post will stay on the internet every second after I publish it. The thought of that motivate me because I may be able to help someone with what I wrote. Just like Stephanie of The Metz Family whose article on child bullying struck a chord in many parents who are concern with this issue that is getting more rampant nowadays. In fact I just heard a news on TV saying that students from a school in Mandurah, Western Australia actually started a website promoting fighting among their classmates. This is sickening and should be stopped!
Bloggers have become an extension of the mainstream media where we voice our opinions freely. This power did not exist before the internet. It is a very powerful tool that could create and destroy as well. Some irresponsible bloggers abuse this privilege by posting negative untrue news about other people; some uses it for their hidden political agenda. Instead of doing all these negative stuff, we could use blog as a platform to spread positive information to the world. To warn people of certain things, to teach people on all sorts of skills or simply to share the beautiful things that we may come across in our lives.
Blogging sometimes could be think of as a very lonely exercise. You feel like you are talking to yourself. Unlike sms or online chat where you would always get a response from what you write, with blogging you write on the blank space of your Blogger's interface without any response. You may get a comment or two when someone sees your post months or even years later.
However, blogging could also be fun when I think that I actually have the opportunity to communicate to almost anyone around the world with issues that I am concern about. People that share similar views may read about my post in the middle of the night when I'm off working during the day. My post will stay on the internet every second after I publish it. The thought of that motivate me because I may be able to help someone with what I wrote. Just like Stephanie of The Metz Family whose article on child bullying struck a chord in many parents who are concern with this issue that is getting more rampant nowadays. In fact I just heard a news on TV saying that students from a school in Mandurah, Western Australia actually started a website promoting fighting among their classmates. This is sickening and should be stopped!
Bloggers have become an extension of the mainstream media where we voice our opinions freely. This power did not exist before the internet. It is a very powerful tool that could create and destroy as well. Some irresponsible bloggers abuse this privilege by posting negative untrue news about other people; some uses it for their hidden political agenda. Instead of doing all these negative stuff, we could use blog as a platform to spread positive information to the world. To warn people of certain things, to teach people on all sorts of skills or simply to share the beautiful things that we may come across in our lives.
On that note, I feel excited. Today I did something extraordinary. Today I started a new blog!
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