After finishing the post and realizing that it was about all three, I realized the irony in my original attempt to guess the subject matter. This is not a persuasive essay, it's not a term paper, and it's not an article. It's a person, just like you or me, writing their thoughts and opinions about something and providing some backround information. Rebecca Blood's post serves not only as a source for people who may not know about blogs, but also as a perfect example of what blogging is about. It's personal, informal, and unpredictable. A person's true personality is really capable of coming out in a blog.
Rebecca's remarks about the evolution of an individual blogger who begins with weak opinions, formulated mostly by the thoughts of others and ends up really being able to express themself really fit into some things I've been thinking about lately. She described, essentially, a journey of self-actualization and discovering one's true feelings. I had never once considered that a person could potentially learn to value their own thoughts more through blogging, but Blood writes convincingly. I can't help but wonder if there are many examples of timid, overly cautious people becoming far open and extroverted as a result of blogging.
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