Bloggers They Chat, If you Read They Assume Your Friends.

From the excerpt that Mr.Tangen posted on his blog, I realised how blogs have become so powerful in the way we get our information. In a way its good, we no longer have to walk a block to the library to read up on Martin Luther King, and we no longer have to go to a bookstore to buy a magazine or a newspaper to find out the weekly news. Instead we now receive our information by just a touch of a button. By reading the excerpt by Sarah Boxer ( New York Review of books) I can see that the world of blogging is not just reporting or telling someone straight up facts. Its about being interesting, spreading your ideas, with your view, your mind, your way. =) Often it is found that bloggers enjoy putting smiley faces, or being sarcastic (like that's ever going to happen), and just letting people know about the world as they see it. Its not like a book, its not like a magazine, its a whole world to itself. Which is why explaining the blog world would be so difficult to explain in a book, as Ms. Boxer said she wanted to do. "Bloggers breeze through places, people, texts, and blogs that you might or might not know without providing any helpful identification." The way bloggers write is almost new and the way they write has become part of the Internet age and if you can't keep up "they don't care if they leave you in the dust." Even thought blogging was at first widely unused, the blog world has become international so now we are all reading one another in different languages and in different countries.

In our blog world I also see something else like Ms Boxer explained,"there are bloggers out there who will do practically anything—start rumors, tell lies, pick fights, create fake personas, and post embarrassing videos—to get noticed and linked to." So even though we may use blogs to get our information, they are not always trustworthy. Some readers enjoy that mystery that a rumour of a blog creates about a celebrity, so those blogs with rumours become a big hit, such as with Perez Hilton. The Internet is a free world with mistakes, just like the outside world, filled with a place we may never completely comprehend.