The Impact of Blogs
Since blogs were invented in the 1990s, their use in modern culture has become widespread, attracting the attention of millions of Internet users. Political campaigns have utilized their ability to reach vast numbers of people in order to create interest in their candidate. Journalists create their own blogs on the stories that they publish online or in a newspaper. At any given time, you can go online to find the latest entertainment news on blogs written by those in the industry. I believe that blogs are effective communication tools, and they can be extremely useful in everyday life, as long as the dangers of publicly posting informations are considered.
The Culture of Blogs
As there are millions of people who use blogs every day, there is a tremendous amount of diversity amongst these bloggers. Blogs help to blur the lines between races, sexes, and religious beliefs. In particular, I think that blogs have had a large impact on teen culture, and the ways that teens communicate. There are millions of teens who write blogs, and post information about themselves on popular websites like Myspace and Facebook. Many people choose to write about what interests them, while others blog about their feelings at any given time. One new development in blogs is lifecasting, where ordinary people film themselves 24 hours a day and post the videos online for anyone to see. In my opinion, these forms of communication are interesting, but there are significant dangers involved.
The Danger of Blogs
The diversity amongst the people who write and read blogs is huge, which naturally means that there will be some bad people in the group. Sex offenders and criminals easily create accounts on Myspace and Facebook, and attempt to add people into their group of friends so that they can access their account information. If one of these people was able to hack into someone's account, they would gain access to hundreds of posts, videos, and pictures of that person and their friends. Governments and companies who run these websites have collaborated to remove many of the people with criminal records, but there are thousands who have gotten past these restrictions. I believe that as long as you are careful not to post any information about yourself online in a blog, and you are aware of the dangers of blogging, that blogs can be helpful in your life.
1 comment:
Very interesting perspectives Parker. You have taken a look at the 3 topics and asked some very intriguing questions. From what I can understand, you do see a value to blogs as long as they're being used responsibly right? thanks for sharing.
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