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Blogging: A Distinct Social Impact
Submitted by mpodlesny
Fri, 7 Dec 2007

Blogging has diligently progressed to the forefront of digital communication in a historically expeditious rate of speed. As early as 1983, threads of message boards dotted the internet with newsworthy postings, including the infamous World Wide Web. By 1994, some were using the web as their daily diary or sounding board.* People began to pay attention. By 1997, these personal homepages became sources of news. Who are we listening to out in cyberspace? It is true that most believe what they read or see on television. After all, these people have our best interest at heart! Don’t they? Or is there an agenda they serve of their own? The dangers of a world of information and socializing through blogging can leave a questionable impact that’s left to be decided.

The daily diaries of 1997 soon spread from journals of self-satisfying thoughts to a belief that people were actually interested in things they said. And many were. The web world grew from personal blogging to videos, thus the webcam. Soon the legal and corporate world began to hire bloggers. The question remained in some of our eyes, what kind of person would post their life for all to see? Or was it their life they were posting?

The immediate fears of children and teens in the blogging world are an ongoing debate. In the eyes of the teen, cyberspace has become a text heaven, taking the place of baby boomers talking on the phone. In the eyes of the parent, the teen is foreboding prey of the parasites feeding on the innocent lying in wait on the end of a text from a “friend” accepted. The law seems to stay one step behind the predator in these cases and children stay one step in front of the parent in finding the scum. The latest threat to servers funneling porn into our lives for not reporting the culprit sets them back about $300,000.00, while the child porn business is a $5 billion business. with 95% of their customers from the U.S.** This social impact that has taken the younger generation into places their parents never thought of falling is all brought to us by the wonderful world of blogging.

In our latest Presidential race, blogging has given the voting public a progressive, new look at candidates they never considered in the past. Overnight, Ron Paul became a viable candidate, when most didn’t recognize his name the day before. Isn’t this a questionable way to choose a person we are to trust with our country? If enough people get on the web and blog an interest, I could become President. People are too busy to research candidates themselves, so they take the word of bloggers, who may also be the predators that are on your children’s bedroom computers.
In defense of the world we have created on the web, we have the opportunity to learn, prosper, and discover the world at our fingertips. Students have a wealth of knowledge, while we can stay at home and do everything from graduate from college to shop at our favorite stores. The positives are abundant and obvious, while the negatives hide and pop out at us while we enjoy the good.

We’ve grown full circle from allowing television the right to tell us what to believe, where to shop, and what to buy. We now have any Tom, Dick, or Harry into our lives by means of the web, as we shop and educate ourselves and think we are minding our own business. Blogging is a distinct and valid social impact on the world and decidedly so. The positive aspect is there are signs of boredom in the blogging world; soon there will be another source for the intruder. Maybe one day we will have a mind of our own and use it.
By: Lynn O`Neil

Edited By: Bruce A. Tucker

source:
http://www.articletrader.com/internet/blogging/blogging-a-distinct-social-impact.html

*Blog is taken from word web and log which means logging or writing entries in chronological order. Blogging become a trend in the world of internet. A blog can be a personal journal which recounts events in a person's life on a daily basis. It can be focus on specific topic like movies,food,music sports politics news or business.

Blog can help language learners to improve and enhance their writing skills because it become trend among people nowadays.Blogs, in a intranets environmentcan be an excellent way to sharing knowledge with their organization . They can read even give a comment to them. It will help to improve their writing skill by getting comment/feedback directly from others.

Therefore, blogs also can be medium of communication and sharing thought. By reading others blogs, they can discuss and exchange their ideas. Its will make the writer become more knowledgeable and improve their writing skill because they need to write blogs often. Then their writing can be improve day by day.. ^^

Url related to blogging:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging

video related to blogs:
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=367ab9eed5af82966a48