Why I Blog

Before this year I never thought I would be one to blog, well let me rephrase that, I never thought I would be required by one of my teachers to blog. So far I have had both positive and negative experiences with blogging and it might be something I will continue later on in life even after I'm done with AP Lang.
Why I like blogging;
It lets me put my personality out there and kind of have a free flowing thing. I am an extremely random person and am capable of talking about a bunch of nonsense, my blog lets me express myself and yet allows me to stay a little personal.
I also like to complain a lot, and many of my past posts have been ones dealing with complaint. I have a lot to say about the world around me and many, many people to call stupid. I like blogging about my complaints because it lets me sort out my feelings about something and this way it makes me think a lot deeper about the actual issue. It helps me to blow steam, without actually blowing up at someone, like I tend to do even though I don't really mean it.
I like the freedom of choosing topics, in the being of choosing a topic I remember hating what I was writing about after only a few days of writing about it. Not hating the activity, just hating writing about the activity. So I was able to kind of change my topics at the turn of the trimester. Even though I have definately gotten away from my topic currently chosen, writing biographies of SuperHeroes, I do like having the ability of changing topics when I really want to.

My Negative Thoughts On Blogging
I don't like people really knowing what I'm thinking because I usually try to stay impersonal and out of the spotlight, that is why I have left my blog closed to everyone except for the people that I have chosen to read it. It makes me feel kind of self-concious in a way, and like I don't have backbone to just freely state a lot of my opinions.
Another reason why I don't like it, is not because I don't like it, but because I am really lazy for the most part and It is hard for me to post when I'm not motivated at all. I know what my parents would say to that though, "You should be motivated because it's your grade at stake," and yes I know grades should be somewhat of a motivation, but I don't really have to worry about them that much because I have such a high gpa, now that I would have to fail like all of my classes to get below a 3.0, and then I could always just try a little harder next term/year to make up for that. But since I don't really want to fail any classes because it would look really bad on my transcript, I'm kind of motivated by that.
The last reason why I don't like blogging is because I want more freedom when, where and how I right. I remember dreading when we picked our topics because I don't really know much about anything besides complaining, Tae Kwon Do and music, the latter two are kind of boring to talk about, but when I chose my other topic, Super Heroes, I got bored of that within two weeks, so I feel like I've been completely off topic most of the time and I don't like feeling off topic, though I know that being off topic can sometimes be a good thing.
Oh and before I forget, I also don't like having a word count because I makes me feel like I stretch out my little knowledge of some topic over about four hundred words, just so I can get something done. Then my post turns out to be really really crappy.