A Blog About Blogging!!

Blogging can have  its pros and its cons. Having the ability to exercise your first amendment right is awesome. Being able to say what you want is such a wonderful right that we in America have been granted the permission to do. However there is a time and place when things that you have the ability to say shouldn't be said.  Blogging is essential to providing feedback, or simply just to speak your mind about whatever you want because you feel the need too. There are limits I feel that comes with blogging, tings such as harassing, belittling or starting rumors that can hurt someone is an exception to the freedom of blogging . In today society the easy access if blogging is starting to rise. I feel that it does have an impact on today's society as a whole. Blogs travel very fast, just as quick as a tweet, or even a Facebook status update. In the article written by Kathleen Parker entitled "Whispering Campaigns Can Take Flight in New Media" gives a wonderful example of how quickly  blogs can travel. She writes in the article about blogs and states

"All of this happened between 12:52 p.m., when the blog post went online, and 1:12 p.m., when a reporter for USA Today decided to call Haley’s office and ask if the story was true. But the rumor was re-tweeted at 1:14 by a Washington Post reporter and picked up by Daily Kos and The Daily Caller. By 3:29, The Drudge Report linked to the Daily Caller article featuring the headline: “Report: DOJ may indict SC Gov. Nikki Haley for tax fraud.” This is a prime example of the effects of one persons opinion can be spread in a mater of minutes. With this being said I do feel that blogs will become more popular in the near future because it gives us one more way to use our first amendment at our own free will, however there should be limitations on false reporting, harassing and other harmful messages. They should be monitored by Gatekeepers and when something is harmful it should be removed.