Mena Trott- A Real Blogger!

START of the Blog

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This is my first time to have my own blog excluding CAS blog. At first, when I thought of blog, I could think about some beauty blogs from Korea that I usually track into, and enjoy looking at them. However, I had no interest to other blogs such as blogs about analyzing the situation happening in economy, or something about science. Also, I thought that beauty blog was the only interesting blog to look at. However, it wasn't! After I heard to the presentation of Mena Trott, I now have different view towards the various blogs of different people, from various places. 

What Changed my View

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wiki/Mena_Grabowski_Trott

Mena, in her presentation about blog, continuously emphasizes that to her, blog is not a tool to make her famous, but to write her stories and feel empathy with the people who visit her blog and write comments, being curious about her, and sometimes also concerning about her. This 
strongly hit my mind, because I always thought that it would be really boring if there are only few visitors in my blog. I could not think that only few visitors are also important to some bloggers.  As Mena said, "Blog is who you are", I learned that even the boring topics I mentioned, such as economy or science blogs, they are all interest topics to someone else, and there are people who enjoy them as I enjoy the beauty blog. Also, I found out that blogs have not only distinct subject, but also just daily life pictures or writings. During Mena's presentation, she gave several examples of blogs, including hers, that just upload daily life pictures, or even selfies of the bloggers. Through blog, we can remember any moment again by looking at the post we posted before. Like how we felt that day, and what we did. For example, during the presentation, Mena mentioned about a father who took a picture of his baby who was born with so light weight that he had danger to be dead. However, the father uploaded his pictures everyday, showing how he is getting better. I think to the readers, this kind of records can be a very interesting and touching post. 

Mena's Speech 

Here is the speech from Mena Trott

My thoughts..

I really liked the presentation of Mena, because I was able to learn a lot about why people write a blog and the main objectives of most of the bloggers, which are to record their daily lives, and share them to the people online. The daily lives can include anything, even researches, because it is their lives. I also want to make my blog, as somewhere I can always write my thoughts, opinion, even only few reads them. If you want to know more about her, or if you are interested on her blog, visit her twitter! (https://twitter.com/dollarshort)