Making my own website and blog, as well as participating in the indie web helped me to cultivate a more meaningful relationship with the web, by carving my own space on the web by building personal websites and blogs, getting involved in communities outside corporate social media and pursuing web development as a career to help to build the web. I am a person who finds more satisfaction in creating stuff than merely consuming stuff, so my websites and blogs have been fantastic outlets for me to contribute to the web, as a netizen who grew up with the internet. {read}