“Unmonitored, each blogger is author, editor and publisher, beholden solely to his or her own whims and desires”. (Snider, 2003)
The purpose or content of a blog will vary according to the purposes and interests of the author. The author’s purpose may be to keep a journal of their life or a journal of a trip. The author may have a strong opinion about a subject and want others to read their view of the subject. The author might be someone who has kept a personal diary for years. In a personal hand written diary of yesteryear, diaries were something kept very private by the author. From some blogs or journals you see on the web, the standards if disclosure by authors of blogs has changed the old standards of diaries/journals. With blogging, those authors seem to loose their inhabitations and post personal blogs, revealing details they would possibly not disclose to a human being on a normal basis. A personal blog is more like a diary entry as in the Weblog site “I do things so you don’t have to”. Writer’s talk about events in their lives, sometimes private, and air their thoughts to whomever is interested. According to Snider (2003), “Personal blogs are famous for breaking the usual standard of disclosure, revealing details considered by some to be very private”. I think individuals find it easier to disclose personal information to a machine out in the expanse of the internet than to someone face to face.
An individual is able to say that posting a blog is all up to the author’s perception or desires about a subject. There does not appear to be any boundaries except the possibility of morality or that anyone is monitoring data when it comes to blogging. To re-iterate, there is a person’s perception of morality to think about. “Unmonitored, each blogger is author, editor and publisher, beholden solely to his or her own whims and desires” (Snider, 2003). I believe there should be a way of monitoring blog content. I really have to wonder where the world is headed in the future regarding communication. The only way a person might be able to communicate with others in the future is through blogging to complete strangers, relying on the fact a human being is actually on the other end. People may get to where they are unable to speak with a person face to face anymore.
Source:
Snider, M. (2003). The Intimacy of Blogs. Maclean’s, 9/15/2003, 116, (37), 40-41. Retrieved September 22, 2009, from Academic Search Premier Database.
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