With the help of sites such as Tumblr and WordPress, blogging is spreading throughout the world and invading our school. Blogging is a simple, free, at-your-fingertips way to express yourself and your views in a public setting. One may even be anonymous through a blog. These sites may have been around for a while, but in a time of global and personal turmoil, the younger generations have discovered blogging is an outlet that allows them to release their feelings and thoughts.

Contrary to popular belief, blogging isn’t just typing paragraphs about your boring daily life. This expression can be translated through words, pictures, and music one can post online. Blogs can be fun and sometimes even downright addicting. With all kinds of ways to utilize these sites, there are blogs available about fashion, food, sports, and nearly anything one may be passionate about or interested in. Many celebrities, such as Gwyneth Paltrow with her blog, Goop, have jumped on the bandwagon.

While blogs have been a very successful way of expression, there are, as always, some downsides. Anything put on the internet can’t be taken back; it will always be there. Some aren’t taking this into considerations when they blog, putting private information out there for the entire world to see. While it may not affect them now, in the future it may. Just like what one puts on Facebook, what is put on a blog can be seen by family members and future employers.

But more important than the possible downfalls of blogging is the success of it. One popular blogging site, Tumblr, now has more than 42 million blogs.

“…I really wanted an identity online. I wanted something online to call ‘me’,” Tumblr creator, David Karp, has said about why he loves blogging (Davis, Sammy, Media Bistro).