Myspace and youth voices are different as well because myspace isn't for school so you can write more about your personal life and youth voices is read by more than just your friends so you might tend to stick to the topics and not add personal information.

    Next week on my blog I hope to add different feeds to my reader so I can stop writing about just the news or sports.  Recently those were the only topics I was interesting but the news is so depressing and volleyball is over so there are no good sports to write about.  I'm learning that there are more interesting news stories I could have written about or just other things I'm interested in such as music or movies. I would like to keep the random and funny news articles every now and then because they tend to be quite intriguing as well.

Being part of the "myspace generation" has its ups and downs. Myspace is a great way to stay in touch with people, but the popularity aspect of it drives me crazy. There is a big difference to me between blogging and talking with people on myspace. Myspace has more of a social feel (Although I have posted the occassional blog on there too.); you can say whatever you want to any one of your friends, they reply, and a conversation begins. When blogging, however, it's more of a one sided thing. You can say whatever you wish, but it isn't necessarily in a conversational manner.

    I have been posting about issues that catch my attention, like the national debt, what is news worthy and scientific research. Next week I hope I can find another interesting article to blog about. I don't know if I would classify my posts as 'really good' but then again I never really classify any of my writing as 'really good'. However, one of my goals this year is to get to the point where I consider all of my writing 'really good'

3)  Next week on my blog, I am most likely going to look up some more informatoin on National Geographic. It has a lot of interesting articles about almost everything. Rather than writing about the same topic everyday, I am able to write about a little bit of everything and learn about almost every subject. It is quite interesting.

    I am not totally up to speed with blogging.  It still feels pretty new even though my class has done so much of it first quarter. The hardest part of blogging on youth voices is finding what to blog about. When given 15 minutes to post a blog, at least 12 minutes go toward exploring Google reader for a decent topic to write about in 3 minutes.  Consequently, my posts are no where near what I have defined as a "really good" blog.  They are indeed short, but don'tdevelop as much as I'd like. On a different note, I have added three friends who in return added me.  I haven't managed to go around to comment their blogs, but will eventually. Besides, no one has commented mine.  

     In the future, I hope to find a topic that will move me to type a more than decent blog.  I have to say that this reflective blog is pretty interesting, and would like to do it again at the end of second quarter.  Hopefully I will be reflecting on my excellent blogging skills that I will develop throughout this quarter.  

    In contrast the writing we do in the journal or for essays is a bit more formal and on a topic that might not be as interesting. I think this provides both positive and negative effects. Because the writing is more formal effort will probably be put into making sure everything is grammatically correct and the style of writing will be less stream of conciousness. On the other hand, the writing will be about a subject that the author is less interested in, and he or she will most likely have less interesting things to say about the subject matter. I  belive that the differences between the two forms of writing make both worthwhile for completely different reasons.

    On Youth Voices, I wish I knew how to find people I know and then add them to my friends list.  If I could do that, there would be chance that we could just talk to each other via Youth Voices.  That would be nice to do because then we could talk about stuff when we're at home.

    So far I have thought that Youth Voices hasbeen really cool.  To me this is a kind of way for you to talk to kids your age and to show people your writing.  This could allow people to find new friends and create a network of pen pals.

    In your blogs I think that you need to keep them interesting.  If you don't, people might find them boring and just stop reading it.  I think that people might also keep reading something if it is a little bigger but not if it is extremely long.  This is because people nowadays have a really short attention span and would rather find something that they enjoy.

      When I think about writing I kind of actually dread it. I prefer blogging to writing because it just seems a lot easier and even, in a weird way, a lot more fun. I never grew up with a computer or the internet so when I discover new things online I enjoy them and am curios about them. On the other hand I have been writing my entire life and I know pretty much what the lowdown with it is. I also feel that you can express yourself a lot easier with a great deal more privacy and secrecy. It is very hard to get published as a author of books but pretty much every blog post is a published writing piece because almost the entire world can read it with ease.

MySpace vs. Youthvoices.net

    Personally, I see Myspace as a highly socail site. I do not picyure it as a place where you would talk or write about things like the news or something of importance to others and not just yourself. Youthvoices .net is a lot etter because it's still a social site but you can express feelings about worldly issues without critizism.