Professional Blogs

So this week we were assigned to read two blogs and basically blog what we thought was interesting about these professional blogs. I had no idea where to look, so of course I went to Google and typed “professional blogs”. And after filtering through 1000 links about how to create your own professional blog I stumbled upon this website (http://problogservice.com/blog-3/ and found two interesting blogs titled “Four Language Errors That Make You Sound Pretentious” and “Is Facebook On Its Way Out? The Folly of Calling Things Dead”

“Four Language Errors That Make You Sound Pretentious”

I hate grammatical errors with a passion and try to not do them myself (even though I am human and do make mistakes) Even when I text, I text in full complete words and sentences. This article caught my eye because it discussed four grammatical errors that people make constantly:

·         Not using a and an before words properly

·         Assuming that bemused means the same thing as amused

·         Taking the rule “don’t ever end your sentence with a preposition” literally

·         Using myself when you mean me

The first rule especially drives me crazy. The writer doesn’t bore you with facts. They add their personality into the work. They add their voice to the piece, so you feel like you’re actually talking to someone. Rather than just reading a long, boring article online. They’re trying to educate people and prevent them from making silly grammatical errors that will make them sound like an idiot. I’m not really sure what the point of the unicorn statue is in this post, but it gives the reader something to look at.

“Is Facebook On Its Way Out? The Folly of Calling Things Dead”

Now this article really entertained me. Not only did the picture amuse me (and creep me out a bit), it made me feel as though I was talking to one of my friends. The writer of this blog is hilarious. They basically make fun of people that over exaggerate by saying some website is dead just because another one surpassed it in numbers that week.

Google isn’t going to kill Facebook or vice versa because they’re two completely different websites. I can’t look up how to make lasagna on Facebook and I can’t poke my friends through Google. Twitter won’t replace blogging because most people have more than 140 characters worth of stuff to share. Twitter is more for people to post quick little thoughts throughout the day.

Yeah people can argue that Facebook already killed MySpace, but my space isn’t completely dead. I for one, still have an active MySpace account and log on weekly to listen to music. (My iPod went through the wash and my iTunes crashed so don’t try suggesting those things to me). Why would I pay $1.29 for a song that I can only listen to on my computer when I can listen to it on MySpace for free?

Basically what the writer was trying to say, (and I agree with) is that people who overreact and say that one website is dead due to another is basically an idiot.