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In this I am responding to the article by Angelina Karpovich, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wales, Aberystwyth titled “I Blog, Therefore I Am.” The Paper is on the topic of blogging and the effects of it on her and her blogging friends. In the beginning Karpovich illustrated how she got into blogging and how it corresponds to her other online sites. As a student in pursuit of her Ph.D. she has sites devoted to showing off her credentials, though blogging was something that she could use anonymously to connect to others in the blogging community about her personal life. Though I have very little experience blogging, I have do have a lot of experience reading other’s blogs and commenting on them; I do see useful benefits to having and keeping a blog. I’m a proud user of the one of the most common blogs on the internet: Facebook. Even though I do not usually refer to this as a blog, the idea of writing down an idea, comment, interest, event, picture, or other writing, and having others be able to respond is especially interesting to me. I realized at one point that I do have a lot to offer others, including advice and critique as well as humor to help others out with their daily tasks. I very much enjoy being of assistance to others but I do not make use of this idea of blogging as much as I could. In Karapovich’s paper, she talked about the anonymity of blogging, and how this could be used as an advantage to you, keeping your information safe from the masses. I both enjoy getting random advice from foreign sources, as well as from friends and family- people I know and can trust to make the right calls. I have found that most people who respond to blogs are there to help, and will do so in most cases.