Blogging was a fairly new word to me up until a few weeks ago. Having subscribed to facebook for a few months, I’ve been blogging without even realizing it! Blogging is becoming a growing trend as technology is being relied on more and more as a way for people to communicate! Throw away those paper and pencil diaries you kept as a kid! Open up your mind to the innovative way to keep track of your daily/weekly/yearly thoughts!
One definition classifies blogging as an “easy, almost instant, publishing of content to a website, where every entry is preserved in a database and is therefore categorizeable and searchable.” Blogging can include written entries, as well as movies, music or pictures. It is a very open way to publish thoughts, ideas and actions.
There are many cautions to blogging.
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Once posted, your blog can be visible by a plethora of people nationwide
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It is typically hard to take back a comment made on a blog, particularly after many people have seen it
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One blogger says “ it’s easy to devote too much time to blogging at the expense of more important areas of both your professional and personal life.” Keeping this in mind will help you ensure that you are only putting as much time into blogging as you truly can without becoming engulfed into it.
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Sometimes words on paper, or in this case screen, can come across a lot differently than if said in person. Bloggers should be careful to word their pieces in such a way that a person or groups of people will not take them the wrong way.
Most blogs would suggest that being involved in blogging is like being part of an elite group. You are free to comment back to another person’s opinion as they are free to comment back to yours. It allows for communication across various forums both nationally and even internationally. It’s such an exciting time for communication! Computers themselves, as well as blogs and emails, are pushing us into a pristine era of communicating people we may never meet face to face!
