Friday, 18 May 2012

Advantage and Disadvantages of Blogging

Blogging is popular among the people in today’s society, especially amongst teenagers. In fact, the number of blogs is exploding, with about 14 million existing blogs. On average, the number of blogs is doubling every five months.

There are many advantages of blogging. Firstly, people can use as an online dairy, using it to share the day’s happening in her life with other visitors on the net. Furthermore, if the blogger (author of the blog) has met up with certain incidents in her life, he can share it on the blog and others can console or praise him, by giving comments or leaving a message in the blog’s tag board, depending on the incident. Blogging can also be a good way to relieve stress as some way want to use their blog to vent out their frustration or pour out their woes when stress becomes too much for them. Some bloggers even use their blogs to flaunt their literati skills by posting poems about themselves or things around them.

Secondly, bloggers can also use their blogs to inform others on a certain topic which happens to be his niche, thus allowing others who are interested in the topic to learn some tricks from the blog, they are also post questions to the blogger if they meet up with problems. Other organisations are also using blogs to make announcements to all of its members, as it is a fast and quick way to convey messages to one another.

Anyone can have a blog. The blogger does not necessary need to know how to write complicated hypertext to own a blog. However, knowing how to do so may just allow you to create personalised blog templates or blogskins, in blogging language. Your blog is your world, you choose any topic from and the sun and speak about it, and may it be personal anecdotes or political commentary. Furthermore, it is free!

However, there are also many disadvantages of blogging. Blogs may be a easy way to vent one’s spleen, bloggers should be careful of what they say on their blogs as blogs are easily assessable. Example in the United States, many employers have fired their employees due to their posts on their blogs.. More serious cases can also be punishable by law.
Next, the hate speech on blogs targeted at some specific people might also hurt the targeted victims emotionally, the bloggers might also touch on inflammatory topics such as religion and intentionally or unintentionally hurt a certain group of people. One might think that blogs can be edited or amended, many a time this leads to reckless behaviour in their posts, but once the damage is done, nothing much can be done to salvage the situation. Last but not least, bloggers may infringe copyright laws by posting some material online that might lead to the offenders being prosecuted by law.

In conclusion, blogging has many advantages that many can benefit from, but bloggers would have to beware of the pitfalls or find themselves in hot soup. The blogging society would need to watch what it says or else it might hurt others emotional or cause something that might run out of hand.

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