Critical Analysis of a Current Trend in Technological Communication

            A blog is defined as a typed of website designed by an individual that is personalized with their interests, pictures, video, and commentary. There are blogs pretty much about everything. Blogging is a good way for people to get their word out into the world. Blogging has been around for a long time and hopefully will be in the future. In 1999 Peter Merholz announced that he was making something called a “wee-blog”, which was then shortened just to blog.

            Blogging is good and bad for business, a form of social networking, entertainment, news, and recreational purposes. It can be good for business because it’s a good way of communicating and sharing ideas really well. It can, however, be bad for business because not all business wants the whole world to know about their business. Blogging is good for social networking because it creates a community for blogging. It also lets you comment on posts so it’s very easy to communicate through blogging. It’s bad for social networking because the internet makes it very hard for people to know what you mean when you are typing something. Blogging is extremely good for entertainment because it’s really easy to see updates on movies or music or celebrities. People make blogs about specific entertainment such as a certain movie or celebrity and they update it often so you get the latest information on them. It is bad for entertainment because a lot of things that people write on blogs are just rumors so most celebrities do not want rumors out there and there are bloggers who write rumors about them, which is not fair for the celebrities. Blogging is very good for news because bloggers update their blogs often with the newest news,  I don’t think there is a downside for blogging with the news. Recreational blogging is a great way for people such as friends and family to view old pictures or look at new ones. The only downside is that it is very public and everyone can see what they are posting. Blogging is so public that anyone can comment on someone’s blog or post. People can get offended by comments and some people write extremely mean things that should not be written.