The days of the personal diary, of a diary kept with our most secret thoughts, fears and desires, were numbered from the first moment someone discovered that the Internet could be an ideal forum for personal writing, that it not only had to be a mass from universities with scholarly books on sale, or websites offering discounts on this and that item that, to be honest, most people could easily do without. The Internet, perhaps as originally designed, is a mass medium of communication between one and all. The personal diary, with its fluffy cover, or an easy-to-break padlock, with the dangers of mom or dad finding out, or a jealous little sister reading her innermost thoughts to all her friends in the school clique, has been replaced. by the Weblog or Blog, replaced by software that allows anyone with Internet access to share their thoughts with the world.

It is estimated that there are currently more than one hundred million blogs on the Internet, it is true that not all of them are active, but they are available for anyone to read. Some are full of fascinating ideas, others with niche writing, poetry, erotica, photography, business advice to the most obvious scams and hoaxes. Within this wide range of possibilities are Blogs written by teenagers from all walks of life. With so many blogs already written, being written every day, it can seem difficult for a newcomer, especially a teenager who is not used to putting words on paper (so to speak), to find their niche. The main problem for many is what to write about: everything they do, see and experience is normal, for them, and unlikely to be of interest to others. The teen’s weblog is likely to disappear into the swamp, and then there’s the problem of what to write about in the first place.

Creating a Blog is perhaps the easiest part of all. The budding writer simply needs to go to one of many services, like WordPress, sign up with a working email address, choose a theme template that fits their lifestyle, and they’re good to go. But what to write about?

An absolute classic of literature, but hardly a work many teenagers might have read or found interesting, is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Here, Robert M Pirsig gives a student advice that’s ideal for the teen blogger. He writes about things around you, about your daily life. Take the city or town you live in, explore it, write about what you find. If that’s too much, write about a single street, a single building within that street. He goes one step further with his student and tells her that if writing about a building is too much, if writer’s block is still there, due to lack of ideas and inspiration, then pick a single brick from that building and write about the brick. . Of course the brick is a metaphor, it is only used to illustrate your point and can be replaced with anything else.

Adolescence is a time of change. We are no longer children, but neither are we adults. We are faced with countless problems, but few viable solutions that suit us. Our generation is different from the previous generation; we are different from our parents not only in appearance, but also in outlook, interests, and ideals. It is a time of conflict, a time of exploration and, with a Blog, it is a time when we can find other teenagers experiencing the same emotions and share with them. A blog can be used to express both frustration and joy, to record the little things in life that give us as much pleasure as the ones that annoy us. A Blog is something that does not judge us, that we control completely and alone, and about which we have total freedom to do what we want. If a teenage blogger writes about a spot in the middle of their forehead, their first period, a misplaced kick that ruined a football game, a handsome man or woman, there’s no one to say they’re wrong, no one to say they can’t write about those things, or that they could write better. The Blog is an open book that welcomes each and every post.

As a teenage Blogger, many will not yet have a definite idea of ​​what they want to do or be in their lives, and the Blog is an ideal forum to test ideas, to write from the heart, to explore. There is no set answer to the question ‘what should a teen blogger write about’, but there are many variables: write about what interests you; about what is interesting about your friends, school, neighborhood; about music, concerts, shows, dance, pets, little sisters. Initially any topic can be addressed, and as much variety as possible can be included in the Blog, over time a predominant theme, a niche, an area of ​​​​true interest can form. Write about topics covered in other blogs, give your own opinion, make your own comments.

The world of blogs is practically unlimited, as is the number of topics that can be written about, and the Blog is the private world of a person waiting to be built, to be populated by publications. Write about what interests you, even those fleeting interests that last only a moment, but don’t limit yourself.