I’ve always heard about blogs. Three years ago, all the teenagers of my age create blogs for fun where they talked about themselves, their life and hobbies. I always wanted to create one but I never did. Actually, I don’t know why but it doesn’t matter since I had the chance to create a blog thanks to this SSK1212 course. That’s not all. The general topic is related to New technologies. Once I heard it, I knew what’s my topic is going to be about: Facebook. The idea was great but needed to be more focused, that’s why I chose to talk about Facebook Addiction.
It seems very easy to manage a blog and it is. However, finding the right information to put in your blog can be difficult. And it was the case for me. In fact, at the beginning I had to search for academical sources in the library. The first difficulty was that I’ve never used the library resources such as Ebscohost. Fortunately, and thanks to the numerous workshops we had and the help of the librarians I learned how to used it and could find sources for my researches. The other difficulty was that I didn’t find the book that matches with my topic. Indeed, it’s a very current and specific subject. This difficulty too was no longer a difficulty as soon as I found academic sources on the internet.
The main academic source in Internet was an article called: The Potential Facebook Addiction. This article was just matching perfectly with my topic. It contained current interesting information and above all five cues that allow to any Facebook user to know whether he is addicted to Facebook or not. Besides, it was an objective and reliable source since psychiatrists who take the subject from a medical and scientific perspective discussed it.
I can definitely say that I’ve learned a lot from this blog experience. I learnt how to search in the library and even how to search efficiently in the internet. I also developed my writing skills, and learnt how to manage a project and working on it regularly. Besides, when searching for another blog which deals with my same topic I could see how the same topic was discussed by another blogger. Above all that, I learnt a lot about a topic I thought I already knew all about it. Even more, thanks to the five cues given by a psychiatrist I knew about myself. Now, I’m aware that I’m a Facebook addict. This blog brought me a lot. Not only from an academic point of view but also from a personal point of view. I’m someone very perfectionist, I like playing with colors and making something normal beautiful. That’s why I liked working on the blog. In the future, I want to have this blog experience again on another topic. I will have a blog for a wider audience and bring to it videos and more photos.