Blogs: A Choice We Must Make

We live in a world were technology has become a great part of our lives. And every day we are more and more dependent on it. Blogs have made it possible for us to be constantly updated with the news “Every sport, every war, every hurricane brings out a crop of bloggers, who often outdo the mainstream media in timeliness, geographic reach, insider information, and obsessive detail.” This can be both great and terrible. Blogs have no censorship on what people what to comment on or what they are blogging about. It has become something people not only to transmit news and useful information to the world in a on time manner, but gain fame and popularity. As I read “Blogs” by Sarah Boxer I started to think that these blogs could cause as much harm as they could good.

The growth of blogs has proven steady “At the end of 2003 there were two million blogs and the number was doubling every five months. In early 2006 Technorati, a search engine that tracks blogs, counted 27 million. In late 2007, the count passed 100 million.” What this means is that people like to listen to what others are saying comment on it and then see others comment on their comment. This is great since I believe it makes the people who do this a much more balanced person. They listen to others opinions and comment on them this will make them more diverse and therefore better people. At this point I was thinking that blogs were great, but I reminded myself that many harmful blogs were posted with the wrong intentions “there are bloggers out there who will do practically anything—start rumors, tell lies, pick fights, create fake personas, and post embarrassing videos—to get noticed and linked to.” I could not find any positive side to this since people do it for fame and don’t care about what others might go trough in order for them to get there.

As I was making my blog yesterday I saw that you could earn some money doing your blog. There was an option were you allowed other people to advertise and depending on how many people visit your blog you are mailed money. This was a great discovery since it made a lot of things clear to me. In order for someone to earn extra money he has to post whatever people what to hear and “And those who succeed are blog celebrities, or "blogebrities."” This makes a great incentive for unmoral and harmful posting. The possibilities that a blog give and author are endless, and part of the reason this can happen is because it is impossible to control what people write in it. This leaves me in a hard spot between deciding weather blogs are overall leave a positive or a negative impact.

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