Friday, March 20, 2009 By Anashe Bandari [ArticleImageHyperLink] Advertising Your friends probably all write in blogs! (January 27, 2006) -- A blog is typically an online journal where users update readers about their day. However, many Clark students use them for different purposes. Freshman Jeremiah Garcia started writing his own comic about a 15 year-old boy with "weird stuff" happening in his life over the summer. He updates his blog, hosted by blogspot, as often as needed to publish his comics, regardless of whether or not people read them. He was inspired to do this by the different online comics he reads and sometimes even posts friends' comics "if their comics are good enough." Junior Johnathan Jianu, on the other hand, uses his blog to get his ideas out. "I do sort of write about my day," he said, "but I try to incorporate stories that are applicable to everybody's lives." In his blog, Jianu writes about everyday observations such as the inefficiency of restaurant workers and the wonders of quick-to-come, quick-to go fads. Jianu says that he writes his blog entries mainly for himself as well, but "if people read, they are better off." However, he considers blogs an important tool for the future. "They're like the journals of today. Historians will look back on blogs and write history books off them," he said. "But then again, if historians do do that, then half of the history books of the future will be wrong." However, not everyone has embraced the creation of MySpace with such enthusiasm. "I don't have an account because I think it's for narcissists and people who are in desperate need of attention. The Internet should be used for researching and other forms of entertainment, not for gossiping," senior Maria Grigorian said. Jianu only reads a few blogs, "but none of them are Myspace blogs. Myspace is overrated; people become obsessed with it and waste their life away on it." Jianu prefers his Wordpress account over Myspace because "it gives [him] more liberty, and has no ads." He decided to make a blog after reading one that he liked, and built his on a similar theme. "There aren't really any negative aspects to blogging," says Jianu. "They even help me with my typing speed and my formal-ish writing."

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