Entry #1. 1 Blog, 2 Blog, Good Blog, Bad Blog

This is my first official blog post, so go easy on me. I've never blogged before or really had any interest in doing so but I'll do my best for the sake of English 101. I never realized that I read blogs until I put in some research and discovered that some of the websites that I usually open are blogs. There are some that I find helpful and entertaining, but there are also others that I don't usually prefer to read, which include complex setups and useless information like celebrity drama. However, I do enjoy blogs that people use to express themselves and their ideas. Hopefully my blog will follow in those footsteps.

I clicked on a couple links to find a few blogs I could write about and came across three certain blogs: Men's Health, I Can Haz Cheezburger?, and TMZ.

The first blog to catch my attention while conducting research was the Men's Health blog. I have previously checked in on this blog as I am a man and was interested as to what this blog had to say. This is one of the blogs that I like to read and catch up on, as it has information on what I could do to live a healthier and more active life. It displayed how to eat healthier, workout routines, inspirational figures, and so on. As I was scrolling through this blog, I did not recognize anything that I thought made this blog bad or boring. All I could say that made this blog a little bit annoying was the ads in between every piece of information because sometimes they would get in the way of what I actually wanted to read. In terms of organization, the blog is very well organized. It has different tabs for different subjects like health, entertainment, fitness, style, and grooming. With all of these tabs, you will have no trouble finding what you want to read and learn about. The format that they use has all the tabs and at the home page, you'll find all of the topics in smaller detail so you can scroll if you should choose. The author's purpose behind creating this blog is to inform men on how to better take care of their body and make it healthier. Since the author was thinking of topics to improve men's health, they including pictures of healthy male celebrities, bodybuilders, links to healthier recipes, and links to workout routines. After covering the entirety of the Men's Health blog, it is safe to say that this is one of my favorite blogs to read about to help me better my fitness goals.

The second blog that I visited was a blog called the I Can Has Cheezburger? blog. I won't lie, when I saw the name, I raised an eyebrow before clicking on it. I had no idea what this blog could be about. Once I loaded into the home page of the blog, I was flooded by ads and cat pictures. I started scrolling and found that this blog was filled with nothing but memes and cat pictures. At first, I thought the blog was pretty funny with all the memes, but then it started to get complicated. It got to the point where I could not really tell which parts of the blog were advertisements and what were memes. I don't really like the blog because of how messy and cramped everything felt. In terms of organization, the website has tabs which you can click to get to different kinds of memes. The format barely has spacing between posts, so some posts seem like they're together when they're not supposed to be. I believe the author's purpose behind creating this website was to create a blog where they can share funny memes to others that might relate to the memes. It's not the best blog, but it's also not the worst that I've seen. I won't be visiting it again.

The last blog that I visited was a blog called TMZ. Most people know that TMZ is associated with celebrity and entertainment news, which isn't different from what this blog website contains. I'm not usually into reading about celebrity news but I decided to give this blog a try. Once I accessed the blog, I noticed that the organization and formatting looked good. There were different tabs for different sections and topics, and advertisements weren't in complex places. Although it was well put together, I still did not like the main topic of the blog. Since it was surrounded by celebrity news and drama, I could really care less. I will not be visiting the TMZ blog again. The author's purpose of creating this blog website is to inform people of celebrity drama and news, which is appealing to a target audience. They include pictures of divorced celebrity couples, weight changes in celebrities, and a lot of personal celebrity business.

Wrapping up the topic of other blogs, I've come to find that I really only enjoy blogs that contain useful and helpful information for me, such as the Men's Health blog. All other blogs don't really do anything for me, it just bores me. I'm sure there are people out there that do enjoy those kinds of blogs though, which is okay, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.