For my digital literacy narrative, I would like to discuss my relationship with communication and privacy while using the internet. Before quarantine officially begin back in March 2020, I started a blog as a means to further develop my digital skills and use my passion for writing as an outlet. But something that started out as simply a passion became a necessity during the lockdown months where face-to-face communication was all but gone. Having to adjust to a different type of communication while being able to talk to people all over the globe was something that allowed me to gain perspective and knowledge about the scope of the internet. For that reason, I would like to foreground my essay around WordPress, and how I created a blog where I would not simply be taking in other people’s content but partaking in the act of being a “content creator”.

In my essay, I also hope to compare and contrast blogging and WordPress as a whole with other mediums of social media that exist. I’m not sure yet if I also should focus on a specific social media platform(like Tik Tok, Youtube, Goodreads) to allow for a better flow in my essay when I make side-by-side comparisons but it is a course of action that I am considering. Either way, I want to discuss how, unlike Instagram and Facebook where many people post and share about their private lives openly, blogging as a digital literacy has some structures to limit the violation of privacy. These rules are not a requirement in the strict sense of the way but they do create an environment where they consider the role and importance of privacy. For example, many bloggers take on a pseudonym when writing as a way to keep some of their personal life private. A pseudonym in blogging often allows people to take on or create a blogging personality that centers around that person’s theme for their blog. With that being said, there is no “correct” way to blog but blogging as a whole and the platform of WordPress does embrace this attitude towards privacy while communicating.