We Takin’ Over…
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The two articles we had to read for class today when simply put stated that blogs are taking over. They dictate what news makes it mainstream, who people interact with, how fast we get our information. They have even come to help us identify who we are. Forget the days when little Suzie took her pink glitter pen and scribbled down her crushes and life’s woes in her my Little Pony diary. Now little Suzie is propped up in her bed with her laptop and spilling her deepest secrets to anyone who can read on the Internet. I cannot act like i don’t support blogs for I myself had one in 9th grade on the infamous Xanga and boy what a blog it was. I used code upon code upon to decorate and would update it almost daily with my thoughts and feelings. However after reading these articles I now realize my blog was insignificant. I did not have a blog roll, my political views were how I felt about upcoming high school elections and no one was citing my site. Mlittle blog was a plebe in the bigger blogging community.
The article that struck me the most was the one on health information and blogging. This article brought to my attention to the fact that we live in a world that appreciates our privacy so much that we don’t go to the doctors to even seek medical advice and we “find ourselves” through the intimacies we share with complete strangers. If I met Billy Joe at the corner of Forbes and Bigelow all we would exchange is maybe an awkward glances but if i met Billy Joe on his blog I would know he is a 22 year old man suffering from a drug addiction and a love of cats. This all seems so strange to me that we can be so open just because we have a computer screen to protect us. The keyboard is mightier then the sword.
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