Old vs. New

Originally, I came to ProgressiveU for the contest. I started blogging at ProgressiveU a couple months before the competition had begun. I knew I would not win, as I am a new blogger, but I stayed because I love to hear people’s points of view on a subject, and at ProgressiveU, I had finally found intelligent discussions and debates! Everyday I checked back to see the responses to yesterdays blogs and when a new blog came up I loved to read it. I dreamed of writing as well as these “professional” bloggers. I am a good writer but when it comes to expressing my own feelings on paper, or computer, it takes a while to say it right and it doesn’t necessarily come out right at all. These blogs had obviously been thought about; everything flowed, the grammar was almost perfect, and each idea was different from what I had heard before. I came to love this site, but one day I logged on and it was like another world; the competition had begun. You read one blog and 10 more popped up, but each was like a comment for the last, one person would write about something like how abortion shouldn’t be legal and right after it are 5 blogs about you got it abortion. Few of the responses were thought out and the same thing was said twenty times. After a week of this madness, I took a ProgressiveU break. For an entire month, I did not even think about ProgressiveU. The competition had ruined the perfect site for intelligent debates. People became more concerned about posting x amount of blogs per day instead of focusing on the quality of their blogs. It was terribly disappointing. It is weird to say, but I cannot wait for the competition to end so I can once again read blogs that have a purpose and have been thought about. I hope someday this competition actually brings more thought about debates than it ruins.

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