Virtual world and time

I have been thinking about blogging a lot lately, the phenomenon and Internet. I have also been about to write every evening but since I became a mum I find it really hard to find the time. After our son arrived something happened with time. Time went fast before but nothing like this, it´s amazing.

I feel so happy I have managed to continue with my course and now it’s just this and two more semesters left. I have had a bad conscious about studying but I tell myself I do it for my son and it will be to his benefit to have a mother that is pleased and happy with her job in the future.

About the virtual world, it annoys me how much time you can spend there, surfing, blogging, chatting, facebooking etc. Is it time well spent? Or is time that you "loose" and that you could have done something better with?
What if a government or state wouldn´t allow their citizens to surf the net more than an hour per day, would it be beneficial to society and would people then spend their time doing more "useful" things?

I can’t even remember a world without the Internet anymore.............................................

Fiction?

Thank you for very wise words and links! I realize this is really a totally new world, it seems so endlessly big. But I am happy that I am just in the starting point of it and that my course has opened this up.

One thing that struck me is if everything you write has to be true? I guess there has to be some sort of "blog-rules", what you can write and what you should write and so on? Or can a blog also be totally fiction? Totally untrue? No one can check it upp anyway, if you are who you say you are?

So truth or fiction, or a bit of everything?

Virgin writer

Oh, dear!

Now more or less forced to it, I have started a blog, I feel anxious, excited and confused! It will surely take me some time just to understand how this works. I am doing this as part of a project for my information studies at Åbo Academy University. Writing in English you have to excuse grammar and spelling mistakes, I will try my best.

I have to admit it, even though I am an everyday surfer as most of us, blogs have never really interested me much, and I can’t be bothered. What is the purpose of a blog? The aim for me is trying to understand the blog- world by writing in my own blog and going out in the cyber world looking for other blogs as well as reading my course companions blogs.

 When I have heard about the most visited blogs in Sweden like Blondin bella or whatever her names is, it makes me sad. Doesn’t people have anything better to do than reading this?

Where are the blogs with depth and that knowledge that you can actually do something with?

Why spend so much time reading about other people’s lives? I just don’t get it. But as I dive into the blog world I am about to find out. What interests me is also what a good blog is? Who decide this? What is it like?

Maybe after now having started my own blog, this will give me some useful new information about blogs and it might even change my opinion and prejudices.

So I am sort of a reluctant blogger that has started a new chapter in my life, this project ends in May, let’s see if this blog do so as well.......

Now I take my “googles” on and dive, blog blog blog.