Final Blog of the Year

* What did you learn about yourself as a reader from creating and keeping up with your blog?

Oh god, I learned a lot this year about myself as a reader. First off, I learned that I love reading, I love the way the words seem to come together so fluidly together on the page, the way an author can spin a tale out of thin air. I love that. I knew I loved writing, I knew I liked it for all the same reasons I liked reading, but this time it was me. The one thing I don’t like is writing about reading, there are so many thoughts that can fly through your head all at once about a good book, thoughts that don’t come together easily. They are never as fluid on a page. For me at least, I’ve got a lot of ideas about books in my head, but I find that when I write about reading it just doesn’t do a book justice.

* Do you think that teenagers abuse the freedom that being online gives you on sites like Facebook?

I think that as teenagers at this age we’ve been given the freedom of most of our lives to have these online media sources that other teenagers throughout the past haven’t gotten the chance to have. In some ways we are lucky because on the internet we can be more connected to our friends and we have more sources of entertainment. However, in many ways we are unlucky. Because we feel so privileged, free, and connected on the internet sometimes it can feel like a personal place, even though it’s the World Wide Web. We end up bullying people on these social media sites and doing things we wouldn’t do in the real world because we feel like there are no consequences on these sites.

* Can you imagine yourself keeping up this blog or creating another one?  What would it be about?  What's your opinion of blogs in general and why?

I don’t know if I would be able to create a blog pertaining to anything else. Some people do blogs on their lives because they actually have things to talk about, however because I’m a teenager and haven’t had any worldly experiences mine would be uninteresting. Some do something on topics of expertise; I’m no expert in anything. Some people take pictures or post things online that they’re proud of. Maybe someday when I’ve got an interesting life, maybe someday I’ll take pictures or write, or I’ll be a world renowned expert in some amazing topic that I’ll want to blog about. If blogging is still a thing, that is. Someday I may, but that day is not today.