As a 15-Year-Old blogger, I have learnt a lot from the Web…

Since June last year, I have started blogging because I have developed a strong interest in IT and wanted to know more stuff that are encircling around the social web. It has already been one year and just like any other bloggers, I started off from scratch, with no money or any ideas of what to write to attract the eyes of potential readers. At that time, I had zero blogging experience which means that I didn’t know what is Facebook or Twitter all about. To improve my knowledge, I read a lot articles regarding the social web and have learnt several valuable skills from my fellow tech bloggers. Gradually, I have emerged from just an amateur blogger to become one of the best professional kid tech blogger on the blogosphere.

Despite the fact that most kids nowadays are quite technologically-savvy as compared to their parents, however, a majority of them do not intend to take up professional blogging. The main reasons are that they lack the motivation, passion and support which are crucial in achieivng success on the Internet. As a result, you would not see many tech blogs out there which are written by young kids or teenagers.

Till now, I have not regretted being a professional tech blogger. Although it may be quite time-consuming to research and write articles, however, looking at a positive perspective, I personally feel that there are countless of opportunities and benefits too.

Below are several examples of what I have learned from the Web…

Improve Writing Skills:

One of the reasons of why I started blogging was to hone my writing skills. As a student studying in Singapore, I always wanted to improve my English so that I can excel in school and blogging has enabled me to do so. By writing articles encircling around the social web on a regular basis, I’m able to boost my ability to write well. Yes, my English has been improving at a steady rate as I’m able to implement what I have learnt through blogging into my studies.

Fortunately, I’m able to differentiate the usage of both American and British English. Some words such as “organize” or “organise” and “color” or “colour” have different spellings. On the Internet, I use the standardized American English. However, at school British English is the official language and I must obey it. However, my second language, Chinese has always been hovering at the same standard with not much improvements probably it’s because I do not much contact with it. If I were to blog in Chinese, most likely it will improve tremendously.

Boost Communication Skills:

Some of you guys may disagree with me that Internet is one of the best method to boost my communication skills. Yes, the Internet is indeed a virtual world whereby you cannot be sure of the real identity of the person you are talking to. However, this issue can be solved by simply staying alert at all times and try to gather as much information from the othe party from search engines and social networking websites.

Everyday, I communicate with many people around the world through IMs, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. In our conversations, sometimes I would share my school life or how’s like being a kid blogger. Of course, IT would still become the main topic of our conversations. Since Twitter is only suitable for one-way communication, I would prefer using two-way communication tools such as MSN or Facebook Chat to interact with my school friends or other tech bloggers worldwide.

Conclusion:

With the Internet growing at an exponential rate, it is relatively quite important for us to keep up to the latest trends. In the future probably one or two decades later as we enter a new era of technology of robots, I do not wish to become an outcast and be mocked at. By then, it would be too late…