The Art of Blogging

     I was assigned in class to create a blog. Luckily, I already had one that I've neglected for a couple of years. I revisited my old friend and made some cosmetic changed to keep it updated. Starting a blog, is not as simple as it seems. Once you find your topic and style then you can begin. The next step in the assignment was to invite people to the blog, that was tricky. It was difficult getting 20+ email addresses and personally inviting them to your blog. The blogging process is influential you realize how many people can read your personal thoughts, and you don't have that much control of who sees this. Yet, the blog can help us all reach out to students and communicate through a media they know very well, a little too well. Back in my day we didn't have them fancy internet connections. If we had a problem we called someone on the phone, not a cell phone, a wall phone (had to include this for humor). 
    
    This assignment made me wonder, why technology has become so influential in our daily lives. Why did we let it go so far? Why do we feel the need to post everything about our lives?
     
    Our lives revolve around the Internet and web-posts. We can't do an activity or enjoy life, unless we post about it first. We feel the need to document everything from, what we eat, where we eat, and who we eat with. It's a little ridiculous. Although I post at least one article on my profile everyday. Through these technologies we have Facebook, Instagram, and even Blog spot.com. Where everyone has the right to post whatever they want, with little to no censorship. The Internet gives everyone the power to voice their opinions. If you choose to accept those opinions as your own, that's up to you. This is a very dangerous power. People are given the ultimate power to post anything, literally anything. For example, I am typing right now what is on my mind. It isn't anything bad, but there is the possibility I'm sharing harmful ideas to young people. Some people read things on the Internet and accept it as the truth. The Internet provides limitless data. That's the problem, the Internet provides all kinds of information at our fingertips. Just wondering if that anyone else thinks like me...

     Luckily, the Internet can be applied to positive aspects  Blogs can provide information and ideas between people so they can learn as the author learns. There are communities of educators built through blogs or Facebook. 

I was just wondering. Does anyone else see that technology is raiding the classroom? 
Maybe it's for the best... or it's supplying ammo for the impending Robot takeover, first the classrooms, then the world.