Prior to this course, I’ve started blogging since I was 16 but have stopped for a couple of years now. The blog started off as a personal journal, going through my daily rants and thoughts. However, somehow viewership started to increase and I was asked to be part of a company that recuits bloggers with a certain amount of viewership. Advertisments are then being placed into our blogs through a simple copy and paste method of certain html codes. We are then paid either by advertorials, through blog posts or pay per click advertisments that are being displayed on our blogs. It was good at the start, seeing money roll in. However, I had to juggle many advertorial posts and my daily life, something I soon found hard to do with exams nearing in. I soon started procrastinating on my blogposts and updates on my blog got lesser in time. So did my viewership. It took up too much time and effort despite the money. I also realised that my posts were no longer personal. But filled with advertorials and posts that my readers wanted to read. But it was an experience and the networking I made during this couple of years was incredible. I’ve met so many different people of different backgrounds. Many from different professions blogged for passion, for fun as a side project but it is through their blogs that you get to see a different side to them. It was an incredible experience, and something that everyone should experience. Now all that’s left is a memory of my blog and all memories of its glory at Http://black-stilettos.blogspot.com