Exit 133 & Derek Young

So yesterday during class, instead of doing what we normally do, we met with founder of Exit 133, Derek Young. We met with him in class and walked down to cutters point to have coffee. I had a watermelon italian soda........ Anyway, he just told us a bit about Exit 133 and then he was open for questions. Basically Exit 133 is a blog website dedicated to Tacoma. It has multiple sections including a forum and a and b sides. The forum is useful for readers to discuss topics without clogging up the comments section. The a side is what the page defaults to when the site is loaded, the b side is a collection of alternate posts with a different "feel" to them which many people don't always read. Derek also explained to us how Exit 133 came to be. He said he started it as a way to keep in touch with family and close friends when there was a health related issue. The blog made it much easier for him to stay in touch with people as people who live far away could easily access it. Andrew said that that is a common reason for people to start a blog.