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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
wryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!11111eleven
 For a number of reasons, I have killed this blog. It's gone now. There really is nothing to see, unless you find this picture hillarious. Even if that's all you're here for, you could always right click and "Save Target As..." It'd be much better for you to have a local copy on your hard drive than to waste blogdrive's bandwidth. They provide a great service for people who enjoy blogging.
That isn't me, anymore. Well, not in a public sense.So, everything you post online can be read by anyone else, right? Sure! That's what the Internet is all about. Access of information. But there are some things that you just shouldn't be surfing around for online. Just because home bomb-manufacturing manuals, child pornography, and illegal files of all shapes and sizes exist on the Internet doesn't mean we should seek them out, right? Right. Blogs are another one of those things. Sure, they can be interesting to read. But some people just shouldn't make a habit of reading them. This is especially true when they aren't being read for entertainment, or constructive insight into an individual. What am I getting at? My teachers should not be reading my blog, or the blogs of my peers, for disciplinary purposes or to catch us in something. I'm not saying that I have anything to hide... but God Almighty, teenagers get a bad rep. Don't assume that teens are up to something. It's not worth your time.
I think Gandhi must have been foreshadowing present-day America's youth when he said "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." There is no need to peruse online journals to dig up information on kids that are probably innocent. (Maybe not innocent, but certainly not "bad" enough so that they should have blog-spies.)
So, if not to be read by the public, what are blogs for? Expression. Literature is the most powerful means of expression. And, like it or not, the majority of people feel the need to express their emotions to others, not to a journal they keep to themselves. That's why I blog. That's why a lot of people blog. The fact that blogs can be read by anyone is both a blessing and a curse. I'm closing the doors on my writing because it's becoming a curse. I don't want people reading what I write with a critical eye. Hell, that probably will happen whether I want it to or not. People have opinions and a tendency to vehemently express them. But if I know that people are looking for information to use against me, I don't feel like writing for the public. Of course, I will blog again. I have to do it. But I'll be doing so in a closed community, thank you very much.
And with these words, I bid you adieu. Hey, it's been a blast, blogdrive.
philip nicholson
february 23, 2005
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