Yesterday I discussed with Katherine over dinner about our blogging patterns. She's got a Livejournal and updates it from time to time. What she covers are her news, interesting experience, and something she'd like to share with specific people--some entries are password-protected while others remain open to the public. I couldn't help asking the way she blogs since my master's thesis looks closely at the reasons why people blog. Her case falls perfectly into the keeping-others-posted type as I discovered in my research. Very typical.
"What about you?" She asked.
"Well," I grinned, "the busier I am, the more I hunger for blogging. Basically, blogging is a way for procrastination."
On the surface it seems so. My blogging peak time usually coincides with the hectic days on my schedule. I blogged three entried from June 1st to 6th. At the same time I was finishing three 25-page-long term papers as well. BTW, do you know what the worst term paper writing experience is? Writing an awful paper is like giving birth to a toad. What's worse, you have to show your baby toad to everyone you want to please and claim "hey this is mine!"
Maybe I need to think it twice. Was I blogging to procrastinate? Or to gain a sense of achievement regardless how minor it is? Maybe both. In my thesis, I termed the statement "I blog to get away from things I should be doing" as escape. That was directly imported from previous studies on more consumable media use, like TV or radio. A second thought is needed to give it a new label which indicates that at least getting something done. Your opinion?
Been a while since you blogged... I guess you must be really bsuy now then? :P
My beef is that almost anything can be a "plaything" for procrastination, even reading an entire Harry Potter novel (my PhD friend just did that). The bigger question perhaps is why you chose to blog instead of doing something else to procrastinate. I think once reason why we blog so often is because we can do it instantly when we have a train of thought. If there were something else more convenient, perhaps we'd choose that instead (e.g. eating).
well,i never write when i am in a high spirit.my blog was full of snippets and complaints,but i am glad for holding this to record my real mode.so this blog thing probably means different to everybody.maybe no need to consider why we blog,coz we are blogging,and there it is,not bad actually.
BTW i like ur toad metaphor thing.and when it comes to preparing for test,what u do is try not to give birth to a toad.....
Writing an awful paper is like giving birth to a toad.......
sweat......
i write my blog while i am not busy.
my english is very poor.sorry.
上帝又在发笑了.....
我很同意一楼的观点,如果有其他更快捷方便的东东,我们会用它取代布劳格的.至从我老爸老妈通过我的布劳格来了解我的动向后,我们打电话的次数明显减少了,互相在彼此布劳格上的留言却不断地增加了.
Maybe when you're extra busy you have more stuff (whether it be events or emotions) to blog about?
In any case, I found this blog while searching for info about "Take me to your heart", and it looks interesting, so consider yourself to have one more reader, at least periodically. :-D
I can't really seem to find your history, so I don't know your exact situation, but your first blog entry was about a flight from China to the US, and you use lots of Chinese in your posts, (and you didn't know what Rootbeer was / you don't like it!!!!), so my guess is you were born and raised in China and came to the US for college? That sort of resonates with me right now, because I was born and raised in the US and have spent the last 2.5 months in China, so I feel like I kind of know what it's like being in an unfamiliar place. Of course your English seems good enough that you could have grown up in the US, and just happened to start blogging after a visit to some relatives in China, so I dunno...
Keep up the posting. :-D
Biology students plafully call this "displacement behavior," in animals, these are observed actions performed out of its normal context in a state of stress, frustration, or uncertainty and usually when the animal is in conflict about two actions. E.g. a cat grooming its flanks and back when confused or has been upset. Blogging under stress is simply a new expression of an old trait! :-)
Maybe it is not that complicated. It is just a way for people to express whatever they want to. Like other communication tools, the more you analyze it, the more complicated meanings you'll dig out. Well, that's the job for researchers.
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