The Saturday Evening Blog

Great first post, Sara! I think it’s interesting that you’re comparing blogs and other new-technology forms of idea-sharing to letter-writing when you usually see them compared to more public forms of communication like magazines and newspapers. Blogs and letters do have a lot in common though, and I’m excited to see you explore the connection more in future posts!

I think that having a blog doesn’t necessarily require the communication aspect youre describing, even though posting things on the internet does create some gateway to the world. Having a blog can sometimes be a creative outlet. From having paperbound journals and diaries to having typed memoirs, having a blog can be a way for someone to organize their ideas, to store them in a way their memories cannot. I am a visual person and a textual person too, I guess, and all of my ideas and thoughts are clearer when I have them typed out. Having something to work on, to create, is probably something innate in our behavior, and using a blog as an outlet for that creative behavior just seems fitting to our time and society, though it does not necessarily require the act of exhibitionism or even communication at all. The internet is a great place to store data, and much like a hand written journal, an online blog provides privacy options…and also, your audience is a lot of times who you want it to be, who you send your URL too or where you post it…I think you’d have to be a pretty established blogger to be frequented by randoms.

Anyway, I guess that doesn’t really fit what youre interested in, but I guess that is why I blog. It is a way for me to remember the things I feel I will want to remember but might not. And it is by no means public, or it is as public as something that no one is looking for.

Love you!