Wes’ Blog

I was a little behind on my RSS feeds, but I came across and interesting one today by John Wagner. The post was about having to have balance between social media and the “real” world. He has come to the conclusion that he should live a little and blog a little. And I agree with him that you need to do both, but to what extent should you do both.  It was at this point I started to think about what blogging has done for me this semester, and what I am going to do with blogging in the future.
It seems to me that it would be hard to keep it 50-50. I keep a balance of about 90 percent living in the real world and 10 percent living in the blogosphere. I won’t lie I would rather live in the real world than sit and read blogs, but at the same time I enjoy reading blogs because it is very good for me.
So here is my dilemma…how involved is involved? I personally only post once a week or so. So can I honestly say I am involved in the blogosphere? I am not sure that I can, but yet I feel like I am part of it because I am posting in the blogosphere. So that brings me to the next question… is my blogging doing any good?
Right now it is because I am getting class credit for it. But what about next week when I am not getting class credit for it? Will my posting once a week do me any good? I tend to think it won’t because people aren’t reading my blog daily if I only post once a week. But at the same time it is helping because I am reading and writing about issues in PR and making contacts. Thus, I am stuck between a rock and a hard place.
So I guess I have a choice to make; am I am going to be a more involved in the blogosphere or more involved in the real world? I wish I could answer that question right now, but I just don’t know.