Blogs

Since completing our last assignment, I have a new perspective on blogging. Although I don't forsee myself blogging too often, I am beginninng to see its more positive qualities. My report was on CouchSurfing, which is a social networking site linking travler's with people in local commmunities around the world. Members agree to host the traveler, (a stranger), by allowing them to stay at their home for a night or more free of charge. The blogs on the site become extrememly important to the members. They allow members to validate or discredit the host or the guest. This becomes an invaluable resource for a member looking to CouchSurf. The blog can also be used to communicate with the entire community while traveling. Members can document and rate different places, which gives the network community a better sense of an area they might want to visit. I originally looked at blogs as being a place to write a public personal journal, and couldn't imagine my involvement. Although, when used as a tool to communicate pertinent and necessary information or to share knowledge, I might consider it. Since there are no blog rules, maybe the internet police should post a warning stating something like, Writer's Descretion Advised, or use a rating system like PG-13, R, X. Some people seem to have have no morals, while others seem to have no common sense. I suppose that in the year 2030, they'll all look back and wonder what we were all so uptight about.