Back on Solid Ground

Back on Solid Ground

Blogs are always rinsing and falling on the internet, am I right?
Thankfully mine stayed neutral. 
Success.

With this being the final post of this very short blogging segment, it's time to reflect on the overall experience:

I'll start by saying that I'm not opposed to blogging or sharing my opinions, it's just that it's not for me personally. Like I said back at the very beginning, I was raked over the coals in my previous blogging endeavour, and don't care to ever really try again. Although I enjoy reading other people's blogs and views, I'd prefer to keep mine to myself, or at the very most, within my immediate group of friends. 

My current social media presence is very indicative of this belief. As an example: I was recently and candidly, photographed and posted on the Vancouver Instagram feed known as "Man Bun Mondays" (make of that what you will), and due to this posting, my Instagram and Twitter feeds exploded with follow requests. I was averaging around 4 requests an hour for the next week or so; none of which I accepted. 

The reason I have any social media presence at all, is again, to primarily share things with my friends and family. I'm not in it for the "follows" or "likes", and I'm sure not about to accept any follows from randoms. This attitude spilled over into this blogging exercise, and clashed somewhat with the purpose, which was to share as much as possible and get engagement from the posts. Is there anything wrong with not wanting a huge internet following?

At the end of the day, even if no one read these Design Life & Struggle based posts, these blogs did help me to solidify and refresh my own personal love for graphic design and the web, so I'd say "job well done". 

Until next time (which there won't be),
All the best.



—tom

Continue Blogging?

The question is will I continue blogging? As of now, the answer is no. I'll stick with focusing on my own social media platforms at first. It can be difficult to think of ideas on what to write with a restrained topic area. For all these blogs on here we had to focus writing on new media, social media, or our portfolios.

 

Writer's Block

With already having writer's block, one of my first posts was about that. Definitely not a good start. It does not help when my head is swarming with a whole bunch of items in my life at once, it's just how I am.

I do not have a problem writing once I get into it and I am passionate for it. Sometimes it may take a bit to get going, but I will get it done in the end. 

 

Other Topics

If I did write blogs in the future, I'd use what I learned during my social media campaign which was write about events along what I was passionate about. Even though I'd probably write about events I do love, hockey being one of them. 

 

Views

Lately I feel like many people are obsessed with views. I admit I had an addiction when I saw the Facebook page likes going up, but I think if you focus on what you're passionate about.. people will eventually see that. The way I think about it is from a youtuber's perspective. They do what they love daily and many of them have millions of views and subscribers. Sure, some of them cared about a bit of views at the start, but they generally enjoyed what they made. Same thing should go for whatever we post online, on any platform. Yes, even if it's a cute cat video. 

Photo by fousik

 

My Future?

Who knows what the future will hold, but I may continue. We'll see. The time I had learning in Social Networking, whether be from blogging here or from other social media, it was a good experience.

My First "Official" Blog

Writing my first BLOG

I’m Belinda.  I am a student taking the New Media Design and Web Development at the downtown campus BCIT.  In my Social Networking class, we were asked to create a Story Telling blog.  So I guess this is my first official blog.  I’m not totally sure yet what topic should I be blogging about but this is a start.  Just writing whatever I can think of right now.  Eventually, I may choose a photography or web/graphic design blog topic.  Currently, I am in the process of building my portfolio site so a “blog” page will be on the menu.  To talk about working on my portfolio, it is actually exciting but at the same time it requires a lot of work organizing and gathering all the contents, then eventually making the site live.  I will be putting six our my previous projects from previous terms. 

Here is a photo that I took last July.  Since school started, I haven’t been taking much photos.

Please like my facebook page.  I have not updated it since July but when I get a chance I will.  Will upload more photos soon!

https://www.facebook.com/belindabuphotography