By Jay-Vee Pangan
Blog, as the man's new diary, is a site where a person can release his/her emotions and stress by means of expressing himself/herself through writing, posting pictures, videos and other media materials for public viewing.
Blog, as named by Jorn Barger, came from the contraction of two words "web" and "log". A person who writes in a blog is called "blogger" and the community of bloggers is called "blogosphere". Unlike other venues for writing, a blog is posted in the information superhighway, commonly known as the internet, and can be viewed by people from different parts of the world. It is like a journal or a diary where a person can write literally everything. But what are the people doing with their blogs? It is not only about self-expression but also about interaction with other people, whether you know them or not. They are using blogs to communicate effectively without actually facing the person. One good thing about blogging is when you post something, another blogger can comment regarding your post and interact with you regarding your topic.
So how does blogging really help a person? The first one would be the enhancement of the ability to write. In blogging, you are the owner of your site. You can post and write anything you want. Other blogger may tend to criticize your blog because of its structure and technicality, but what matters really is the ability to write and the brave attempt to do so. Anyway, those comments may be helpful sometimes for you can learn though reading and analyzing them. As you write and write in your blog, you start to explore many things and one day you will realize that you already went too far in writing. Blogging can really help a person in this matter if practiced in a right way.
Blogs serve multiple purposes in a person's life (or shall I say a blogger's life). In a blog, one can document his life, share information, make money through advertising in your blog, and most importantly explore a hobby and passion in writing. Though blogging is a good way of expressing yourself, one major criticism about it is that there are no really established laws or rules against blogging. So while you can write anything you want, other people may write anything they want too. So if the write-ups are bad, nothing can mediate and stop one from writing.
