No Favorite Blog

I don’t really read any blogs regularly for many reasons. One reason is that reading a blog is something you would do in your spare time, and I don’t really have much of that. Most of the time, I stay pretty busy between school, work, and spending time with my family and friends. Another reason is that I go through a lot of phases. I might read a blog for a week or two, but after that, it starts to get boring.

Furthermore, blogs are frequently filled with wrong information and often break down due to people on the blog “flaming” or simply getting so off topic that the blog degenerates into foolishness. However, my opinion of blogs may have been prematurely molded due to my first and second experiences with blogs which I read for a school project on the Nazi medical experiments. On both of these blogs, people had vast amounts of inaccurate information on experiments as well as on the second blog which had degenerated into an argument of whether Hitler had actually died on April 30, 1945 or whether it was a conspiracy.

Consequently, the new social digital norm of web logging, or blogging, has not taken root in me. Though this may seem strange, I feel that blogs simply are faulty due to the human element which, in my opinion, frequently causes the good idea of blogging to fail. Though I personally do not blog, the idea of blogging is a good one. It gives people all over the world the opportunity to communicate ideas, as well as debate current issues or discuss topics of history. I feel that one of the greatest achievements of blogging was seen recently with the unrest in Iran. People were able to communicate and blog of the governments questionable actions against its people, allowing people in the global community to learn of the occurrences which brought to light the negative actions of Iran.