Before I Had a Blog

I am never on my laptop. All around me, I see students my age on a laptop and using it for YouTube, blogs, and other areas of content. Yes, I may be on my phone as much as any other 21st century human being, but I’ve never been a blogger or whatever else. So, because of my lack of familiarity, this whole process has been quite confusing. Between going back and forth between the instructions, the page, and the million different ways of communication, (hence why I’ve already been late twice out of the three classes I’ve had) I’ve been struggling. Through this process, it did confirm my reasoning to avoid online classes as much as I possibly can is 100% supported. Luckily, the detailed step-by-step instructions prevented my head from exploding. To set up an account was actually quite simple due to the fact that it included the basic steps of inserting an email, password, name, etc. Then you enter your empty blog and need to make the decision of a theme. If you really don’t care about what your blog looks like, (especially if it’s just for a class) this step can be a breeze. Unless you’re me. I scrolled through template after template and changed my mind a million times over, unknowing of the fact that the worse was still to come. Finally deciding on a background, I had to write a title and pick out pictures and backgrounds, which was confusing because the background would never change color half of the time. As I approached the end of my journey (or so I thought) I discovered adding accessories like widgets, follow buttons and headers.  HEADERS WERE THE WORST TO DEAL WITH OUT OF THIS ENTIRE PROCESS. I was so frustrated because I kept adding certain tools to different headers and nothing would show up, and even if it did, the buttons would be placed where I did not want them. I still have no idea how to add what I want to the tab strip across my blog. The problems I encountered while setting up this blog were not due to lack of instructions, but the blog site. The blog site was never very clear on what certain things were and where, like the differences between header 1, 2, and 3. After my success in placing my widgets everywhere but where I wanted them and writing my first post, I moved on to attempting to sent up an RSS. Lets just say, do not try and find my RSS because that was a whole lot of instructions that I definitely did not understand. In the end although, we made it (sorta). Here we are, with a blog that I have already published with 4 different themes. Even with my lack of desire to do online-based homework, I do look forward to using a blog rather than past daily english assignments, like journal topics. Being completely honest, this blog will not continue after this semester. While this blog is requirement though, I hope to acquire a different set of writing skills, and to never have to set up another blog again.