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Sunday, 20 January 2008
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By Clint Jhonson

  In the past, whenever people wanted to talk about the latest news or share their thoughts, they had to do it in the community where they lived, with their neighbors and friends. If you really wanted to make your point of view known, you could write a letter to the local newspaper, but nobody guaranteed they would publish it. Today, peoples access to information has become unlimited, thanks to the expansion of modern technology and the Internet. People can now express their opinions in their blogs, where everyone can read them. If you want to protest against an unfair war, to warn the others about the dangers of eating unhealthy food or to promote an event, blogging is the most efficient way. You have total freedom as nobody decides what to write in your blog except yourself.

For the people who read them, blogs are a way of entertainment or a source of information. For the people who write them, blogs are ways of sharing their ideas with others. Blogging helps to connect people, to make them exchange information and opinions and get to know each other. Even if you havent started blogging for the purpose of meeting new people, you will soon realize that you have made new friends. Reading somebodys blog can help you know that person better than you know most people around you. This may seem a paradox, but think about it. You can see a person every day, work in the same office, talk about work-related issues, but have no idea about that persons personal life or life concepts. On the other hand, you can read somebodys stories and feel close to that person even if you havent actually met in real life.

Blogs allow you to maintain a close relationship with a person that lives in another part of the world. In the same time, blogging gives you the possibility to develop your written communication skills. Some people who started as bloggers wrote books based on their blogs and became famous. Of course, we cant all be writers, but by putting our thoughts to paper (a figure of speech, as a blog is written on the computer) we can think more clearly. Blogging helps you structure your way of thinking.

Whether you are in favor of blogs or against them, you cant deny that they have become an important part of the modern society. In fact, blogging has caused a revolution of information. The information is no longer under the monopoly of television and newspapers, which can sometimes send deliberately distorted messages. Thanks to the wide network of blogs, information is spread in the shortest time. Sometimes news is published on somebodys blog before the television finds out about it.

A successful blog is a blog written with sincerity and attention to the informations accuracy. Dont write about a rumor on your blog unless you are sure it is true. Avoid criticizing other persons on your blog (even if they deserve it). Although you feel protected by the anonymity of the blog, dont forget that many bloggers have been sued by the persons they had insulted. Besides, nobody is really interested in how much you hate your boss.

Blogs give us the possibility to express our point of view, without the worry of being censored. Blogging can also help us get in contact with new people and new ideas. You will make new friends who share your opinions and views on life.

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