Rationale
I was
sitting on my desk in English classes, when my teacher started talking about
the mass media and the impact of the media in our life. Then our teacher, to
give us an idea of what media is she gave us some examples, between those
examples she named blogs. I classmate of mine raised his hand and asked the
teacher why blogs are count as mass media if no one uses them, especially young
people. I was surprised with the reaction of my partner, but in a certain way I
felt he was right. I didn´t know anybody of my age that has the habit of
blogging. Intrigued with the blog issue, when I got home that day, I searched
about the state of blogs nowadays and what I found an article that was about
the decay of blogs in the society. The author of the articles said that blogs
had reached their saturated point of popularity and that the main reason of the
declination of blogs popularity was that the younger generations moved on to
another types of media, like Facebook or Twitter (in the year 2006 a 50% of the
younger users of blogs (12 to 25 years old) end up their use and accounts of
blogs). Therefore, I am writing this blog entry to motivate the use of blog in
young people by explaining to them the benefits, why they are useful and what
the things you can do in blogs. I choose a blog entry because it represents the
theme I am supporting and I also choose it cause I think a should be an example
to follow for the youth, by doing a blog entry.
Blog Entry
Blog may be
something odd for young people nowadays, but once it was popular for a big
variety of ages. Between the years 2000 and 2006 blogs was the “gold age” for
blogs, at that time blogging was something more common for the youth than what
it is today. The youth of these days are not in the habit of blogging, this
habit of using blogs as something common is lost in the new generation. So, why
blogs loosed popularity in young people? This is because people moved on to
another types of media like Facebook, Instagram, twitter, in other. One of the
reasons people moved to other media was that they didn’t see any benefits by
blogging so they stop using them.
There are
many benefits and things that you can do in blogs the platform of blogs open
you a world of possibilities. Blogs are very useful to start a business, in a
blog you can build up a name for your new company. In blogs you can upload
advertisements of your company and you can also make blog your company homepage
or put links to yours company main page in blogs, so people can know what you
company does, the services that you give and the products you have. Blogs are
also useful to make insight (is when you build an emotional link between your
company and the consumers). Insight is one of the best ways you can get your
company known by people, insight is also useful to make people prefer your
products than others, not because there are better or cheaper, but because they
fell in touch with your company, that’s what insight does. Therefore, if you
want to run a company blogs can make you success in easier way.
Blogs are
also useful to share your personal vague. If you want to share to the world
what is happening to you or what you are thinking blogs are a very viable path.
In a blog you can upload whatever you like, you can make blog your personal
diary or a trip dairy. If you are young and you feel that no one hears you and
understands how you feel with blogs you can get in touch with people that think
and feel like you. Your blog can be your way to express yourself the world. You
can upload funny things, if you like writing or drawing you can post your work
in your blog so people all around the world, and if your blog goes viral you
can win money with it, by uploading cap chats of advertisements of companies
that would pay you greats amounts of money for each visit your blog has.
If you like
journalism you can blog your own news. You can make blog your “newspaper” there
you can share whatever kind of news you like; you can upload news of your
neighbourhood or bigger news of national or international level. The good thing
that a blogs have for the writer is that there is no censorship. In newspapers
there is an editor line that controls what is being published in the newspaper;
instead in blog you are freer of expression. Apart of writing news you can also
comment news or acts. In blogs you are free to give your opinion about the news
and acts, your opinion as a common people may be interesting for the reader.
Writing new in blog can open you a path into professional journalism, and it
gives you a great experience of what is being journalist.
Blogs is a
place where you can share your knowledge to the world. In a blog you can upload
information about a scientific area. You can blog scientific articles, essays,
investigations, etc. In a blog you can make a discussion of scientifically
important issues. You can make your blog your personal Encyclopaedia by posting
what you have been learning in classes or by yourself and then share it with
your public.
Young
people thing that blogs are not important in the media, but they are important.
Blog is a way where the news and info are not controlled or censored, in blogs
you have a free speech, so you can say thing in there without fear. Blog help
“desmonopolizate” the media, so that people don´t have only one perspective of
the whole story. Blogs, I think, are like the media that the people control,
there is full transparency and there are no political and social differences,
blogs are for everyone they are free to be used.
In
conclusion there are benefits that you can get by blogging, and blog can be
very useful for the youth to win money, start a company, and share your opinion
or life. And that it is important for the society that the new generations are open
to integrate blog to their life style, so that this important media doesn´t
lose against the others media.
