Who Is My Audience? (Conclusion)

    Our blog for class is supposed to be directed at a particular audience.  This is possibly my weakest aspect in writing: defining your audience.  This is an especially bad problem because not knowing who your audience is weakens most every aspect of your paper.  I started this blog when I began college only because a friend of mine said he kept a blog of his own, and I thought it sounded like something fun.  At first it was basically copy pasted sections from my journal that I thought my friends might find entertaining.  I took out the really personal stuff, but if you read my journal right before college, you would be surprised at how similar they are to my first six or so blog posts.
   Once I was told we would be keeping a blog for this class, I thought that I should make the class my audience, and write about Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Kairos, and other class terms.  I quickly came to realize I could not keep that up for the whole semester.  It was ridiculously tedious to write even one post.  I then thought of what I blogs I like, and how I spend free time on the internet.  When I go online, and I have nothing to do, my first stop is usually facebook (this is also usually my first stop when I do have something that needs to be done, but that's another story).  Next is youtube, then tumblr.  I go to these places to watch the personalities like ShayCarl, Philip Defranco, Mitch&Adam, and others.
    With that in mind, I decided to write to an audience like a group of friends where I can clearly write out my opinions, and share amusing anecdotes, but with a gospel spin, and attempt to make it somewhat intelligent for class.  It is a pretty complicated audience, but thinking that I am writing to others and not just for myself really affects what I put in here.  I use periods for example, and try to have some variety in my vocabulary.  This is the most prominent thing I have learned keeping a blog, is remembering why I am actually writing and who is going to read it.