Cyberlife--WRAC 237-43& 256-61

In response to the Discussion and Writing question 2 on pg. 258.

I strongly agree that blogs will not go away any time soon. Blogs are like online diaries to many people. A lot of people love to write what is within them. Expressing feelings is a main reason why people write in blogs. People like to show other people their feelings; to put a piece of themselves on the internet. If blogs are to last (which I believe will stay around for a while as I stated earlier), then people will be the ones to keep it going. As long as people keep posting and reading blogs, then they will stay alive.

Prior to reading this article, I read maybe only one blog, which was done by one of my friends. That was when I first heard about blogs and what they were. It was interesting; my friend had pretty much all of her life posted in her blog. I personally still didn’t keep a blog because I preferred to write in a journal.

The reason why I believe that blogs will stick around for a while is because of some of the reasons for creating blogs that Dvorak makes at the end of his article. Although Dvorak gives five reasons that people create blogs, I believe that two of the reasons, Elimination of Frustration and Societal need to share, are the most likely reasons that people create blogs.

As I stated earlier, blogs are places where people can show others their feelings. Elimination of frustration is a big reason why people create blogs, in my opinion. In my experience, people who are angry like to pour out their anger on paper. Especially if they have no one to vent to. Why not vent to the paper? Why not vent to all the other people in the world through the net? They have no choice but to listen if they read your blog. What will the blog do? Complain in the blog, yell, scream, curse, act out your anger in it. It can be very stress-relieving after a difficult day.

I also believe that people start blogs so that they can just put themselves out there. It’s as if they want everyone to see them, which Dvorak describes as “a societal need to share.” They create a blog, and expose themselves by sharing personal things whether they be life crises, good things that happened to them, people they are attracted to, or even small things such as the sore they got on their leg a week ago. They show the world who they are for different reasons, maybe wanting a small amount of recognition or for whatever reason.

These are the reasons for blogging that I find most persuasive by Dvorak. They seem to deal more so with people expressing themselves than with anything else, and expression, I believe, is the reason why most people write blogs in the first place. It is their diary. These are the most important reasons that I think Dvorak gave for blogging.