After two weeks...

Three, two, one..go!

This is the first post in my blog and I'm quite excited!

After having looked around the web for interesting blogs, I'm creating my own blog and I think this experience won't be limited to the English course. I'll try to update this virtual space and it is actually a good way to keep in touch with everybody feels like joing.

Before starting this course I already knew what blogs are and that they are rather spread in the web. Even a few friends of mine have their own blogs, where they tell what happens in their life, they upload photos, they make reflections about their personal experiences, they quote impressive sentences taken from songs, books. Their blogs are rather personal, there's nothing extremely intellectual or technical, but all their friends contribute and reading the comments posted makes a lot of fun! I like this way of communicating! For this reason I'd like to use this blog in the future, so that everybody can post their comments!

As I really like travelling - even for a couple of days - I'm always looking for new destinations and as there are endless possibilities I often rely on what people I know suggest or I just make an attempt crossing my fingers :-). I would like this blog to become a space where people exhange experiences and destinations. For this aim comments are one of the most positive aspects of blogs. This is the section where surfers really exchange opinions, impressions, suggestions, tips, and even contact the blog's author.

Another aspect I had never considered before is the fact that blogs function as filter. As we all know, the web is huge: it can be extremely useful, if you know how to handle it. However, it might even be a "trap" as you can easily get lost looking for the pieces of information you need. So if one starts searching first for blogs that treat a specific topic, he might limit the sources fournished and it is easier to find the actual topic he wanted. Blogs are a very good medium to exploit somebodyelse's sources. As Sarah said, the web is a network and its greatest potentiality is the fact that everything can be connected. Moreover, I really appreciate the fact that blogs are written in informal language. There is a lot to learn from many of them, for example idiomatic expressions. I already stated this in one comment I wrote: there isn't only one way to learn! It is important for us to speak proper English, but common people use different expressions, different words that might be more difficult for us to understand because we are not used to. Using blogs and the language through which the majority of people communicate leads us closer to the "real world"!
(Photos from http://www.flickr.com)