This is the beginning. Not just the beginning of my blogging career, but the beginning of my totally un-bias/shrewd/cunning/genius opinion on all things network media and beyond, which should be considered in the upmost light and never questioned under any circumstances ever… ok so it may be a little bias sometimes but I’m not winning a pulitzer prize anytime soon.

In my first entry I’d like to keep it nice a simple and discuss one of this weeks readings, specifically Adrian Miles’ post on Blogs. (http://vogmae.dropmark.com/133224/2127747) One thing that really captured my attention in the post was under the Consequences and Conclusions section where he discuss’ an online identity. Adrian explains how having a blog allows for us as students to develop an online persona and certain charisma (which may not be the same when offline) which I personally believe is an extremely important point. It got me thinking about how important it is in the ever rising power of the internet to have some sort of presence on the internet. Wether or not it be on social media like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram or even whether it is just a simple blog for a University course, the importance for an online presence is increasing. It has become the new social norm to contact friends and family through the internet and ever increasingly to meet your significant other through and online dating site. I digress however my point is that it is almost nowadays just as important to have an attractive online personality as it is to have an attractively personality in real life. sad, but with a slight of truth. When you go for a job interview now it is more and more likely that the prospective employer will google your name or search your Facebook to try and figure out what kind of person they are potentially employing. This to me is a prime example of why it is so necessary to have an experience online persona and it is through this blog that not only myself, but others can develop/improve/explore their online personality and what works for them and what doesn’t.

I’m still getting the hang of Blogging this being my first post and all but I’m looking forward to many more grammar mistakes and bad puns.

In the wise words of Ralph Wiggum, “Me fail English? Thats unpossible”
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