Blogging is a good form of communication, it allows us as users to be able to clearly see others work and allows us time to look through it in our own time and to comment on our views in relation to various topics. I think it allows us a lot more thinking time, which make our comments better.
Similar to any other genres?
I would argue that using blogs to communicate is very similar to other forms of communication such as using msn or other instant messaging sites. This is because people are able to communicate with others by using language that we are all comfortable with using. We are able to feel as though we are having an informal conversation with others about issues that we are interested in.
The only downside and difference to blogging, is that it doesnt always have an instant reply like msn does. Meaning you would have to check your blog regularly to be able to see what else is going on. It means that you need to get into a routine of checking your blog just like how often you check your facebook!
What do others think about blogging? do you think that it is easier once you get in the routine of checking it?
Language
If you think about it, in a seminar, you do not speak in a formal manner. So it would be silly to suddenly start typing formal words when doing your blog. I think using an informal everyday language makes blooging feel less educational and more like having a normal conversation with other people.
If we were forced into using academic language, I think it would make us all find blogging difficult. We would be trying too hard to please others, rather than actually thinking about what we were writing. What does everyone else think? Do you think using a more relaxed, informal language makes it easier for us to communicate on here, or do you think we may become bone idle if we feel as though its an informal thing?
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I wouldnt agree that blogging is the same as MSN and the like cause with blogging - if it was on your life etc then you could spill your whole life to a 'random' who would find it, where as on MSN you choose who you share what with. From my past blogging experience, the ones I have been on have been people talking about their life - like a diary.
I think that people who blog about their own thing dont really care that much about posts, its their way of emphasising their interest or keeping a log of their life etc.
I deffo agree with the informal manner on blogs though, if you go on one and someones using big words you dont understand then you click straight back off it! I think that everyone hsould try and explain what they have took X meaning to mean in their own words, with their own little descriptions of it that helped them 2 understand it.
Isn't it interesting that a lot of bloggers do a "diary" like thing about their lives and their thoughts. In the past people would go to great lengths to avoid having their diarys read; they whole point of a diary was that it was a way of expressing innermost thoughts that were not for the eyes of other people. Now, it seems there is a compunction to share our lives online.
Could this be a reaction to the more solitary existance of the computer literate? Or what about some nod to Turkle's notion of the fragmentation of personal identity? Has blogging become a way in which far from defining and outlining the believed "true" self, but more a way of describing a life we'd like others to think we miight lead?
i think that as a society, we have all become really nosey & are obsessed with other people's lives. The hole celebraity culture has developed over the last few years so rapidly, and its just part of our upbringing and everyday lives now to be so nosey!! its worrying really, that we have nothing better to do other than to stick our noses into other people's lives!
I do think that it is a good form of communication as you can share ideas and disscuss what you want when you want.
I do think it is similar to other communicating sites much like facebook but in more depth from the side of talking to others in greater detail on specifics. You dont have to be formal and use colloquials as it is like having a verbal conversation but written down unlike msn here it isnt in detail to much degree.
Once you get the hang of blogging it is very much like facebook and myspace as you do check it often to see if anyone has replied to further your knowledge.
Everyone sticks their nose in other peoples bussiness thats just how humans are have to know everything about everyone hence gossip magazines and tv programmes.
I think that sue has a good point on the fact that people do have diary broadcasts to the world but can put across different ideas of what they really do think to either fit in with the crowd or to stand out from it much like fashion.
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