First Post!

Creating this blog was a good experience for me especially since it's the first time I ever made one.  Being that I'm an English major at Rutgers and enjoy writing I don't know why it took me so long to actually do it, but I think I'm going to enjoy having one.  I'm not a complete stranger to blogging though, I am also in a band that is basically my life outside of school and I try to update our blog (via myspace or facebook) to keep people informed on what we've got going on as often as possible.  I never mind updating the band's blog because it's more informative than opinionated.  Personally, I don't know how I would feel about people I don't know reading my blog because it will obviously be heavily drenched with my opinions.  I could honestly care less what people think about me, but I feel that taking the time to post my opinions to the world can leave a lot of room for people to misinterpret or judge me based on single instances and situations that can be taken many different ways out of context (and why shouldn't they if I'm the one putting them out there?).  As far as my friends reading my blog, I do not think that I would not mind this at all since mostly everything I will be talking about on here are things that would come up in our normal conversations.  After looking at my technology log from Thursday until today I can see that I use the internet at least every 2 hours in my day to day life, either through my iPhone or computer.  Facebook is unfortunately, a big part of my life because I use it to promote shows for my band (and we had 3 this weekend: thurs, fri, sat).  It is honestly the easiest way to let people know what time, what venue and any other details about our shows that people would need to know.  Even though I'm not a fan of what facebook is doing to the world we live in, I definitely reap the benefits and realize that I'm no better and have no right to talk, I guess I'm just aware of the problem.  I am also in two fantasy football leagues which entails me going online to check my team, stats, etc.  Between my band e-mail and school e-mail, I feel that I am constantly checking my mailboxes throughout my day.  Last, I love music and follow several music blogs (www.thenjunderground.com is a cool one for local music if you're into that) throughout my daily routine.  In the end, it is kind of sad how connected our country and most of the world is to this fast paced, instant gratification type of lifestyle, but I depend on it just as much as anyone else.  Looking forward to being a blogger and wondering if I'll continue once this class is done.

- del