Friday, February 8, 2008

Me vs. the World

Many people like to write their own opinions and beliefs about certain issues, however, only few can consider themselves "professional" writers. There are many barriers that can help distinguish an ordinary persons work from a professionals work. One reason I think having some barriers and boundaries on who can publicly publish writings is because some people can be very harsh, rude, prejudice, etc. in their writings and not think anything about who it will affect. Unfortunately, there are a number of ways that anyone can publicly publish pretty much anything they want. One of the main places that I have recently been introduced to where this occurs a lot is blogger.com. If you have a blogger account you can post anything you want, that doesn't necessarily mean that other people will see it, unless they know your blog account name. The blogger website is also used in school. This class is the perfect example of that, we use our own blog sites to post all of our work for grading. Some of the works we post are serious papers that are due, but also we have had to post videos that we enjoyed. This is only one of the many places people can publicly display their thoughts and opinions. The website Blogger and many more are the reasons that these boundaries are losing power.

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