Before taking this class, I never thought about blogging, I had neither read nor wrote a blog before this class. It just wasn’t something that interested me. Since I started blogging for this class, I found that blogging can be a helpful tool in making sure that you know what you are learning. In that you have to take what you are learning and put it in your own words and relate it to your life.
I believe that in the future blogging will neither increase nor decrease, I believe it will stay at roughly the same amount of usage as it is currently. Even though blogging can be a useful tool for learning, I don’t believe that it will catch on that it is. Many people who are in high school or college, do not have the time to sit down and write a blog for all of their classes, between the class work for all of their classes and work, it is hard to have the time to sit down and do it.
Outside being a useful tool for those who are in school, I find blogging as away to express yourself. Blogging is away for you to express what you think about, just about anything that you want to talk about. Not everyone has to agree with what you think or believe, but you have the right to say it. Giving people who think or believe what you do, away to reach out and have someone to discuss their belief. Although this is a good thing, it can cause some problems, it could start a “war” between two opposing sides. An example of this is whether gays and lesbians should have the right to get married. A “war” has started between both the opposing and supporting people of this topic, making it a problem in society.
There are advantages and disadvantages to everything, even in blogging. But just because there are disadvantages to blogging does not mean that it should be taken away, because it is away to express your First Amendment Right, the freedom of speech.