I had kept a written diary for 4 years from 1997 to 2000 writing diligently and almost daily. Those diaries contains ticket stubs for shows, photographs, letters and stuffs stuck in between the pages where they are relevant and it contains entries written in English, Chinese as well as occasional doodling. In the year 2001 I switched to the first online diary called the Open Diary which was opened in 1998. The site allows users to choose to keep their entries private as well as able to view by other users and eventually, leaving comments.
Today blogs has become more than just a private affair. Bloggers are able to share daily experience; express their feelings and opinions; comment on others; share pictures, videos and audio etc. While the sharing of positive and constructive information is generally healthy and encouraged, it is when the sharing of negative opinions that is creating controversial in the community. Day (2008) said that opinions are simply one person’s point of view, a position arrived in one’s mind, not necessary built or even influenced by a fact of two. What was once a private affair has in this era of blogging community became a public media. Suddenly blogging is now a medium for gaining awareness and attention. Bloggers used an interesting register approach to writing their entries and readers flock to their blogs to read their regular posts. On top of that, advertisers are boosting and exploiting these media through social media marketing by paying for their posts or sponsoring their blogs. Face it gossip news sells and the onslaught of such blog entries are attracting readers like ants to the sugar jar. The existence of blogs as a social networking community together with FaceBook and forums are slowly becoming a part of our lives.
When reading blogs is getting to be better and more interesting than watching Days of our Lives, it is not surprising to know that bloggers are being paid to blog already.
PS. Till today I still keep the 4 years of diary I had and traditional journal writing is still an indescribable nostalgic feeling as those moments of my life are written in pen and ink.
Reference
Day, M 2008, 'Blogged down in a swamp of other people's opinions' The Australian, March 08
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21342645-12280,00.html>
Wikipedia, 2009 social media marketing, last view 17th March 2009
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_marketing>
Gupta, 2005, Microsoft Recruiting Paid Bloggers, MediaPost Publications, viewed 17th March 2009,
<http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=31467>
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