Flexibility of blogs
March 13, 2008 by liping
Weblogs can indeed server many purposes. You can blog to keep in touch with friends far or close. You can share your happiness, sorrow, thoughts and millions of trivial things. Blogs can also be a channel to dump emotional garbage. You can just log in to moan then get on with your life. You can also blog for yourself, that is, to document your life, to leave footsteps and marks. I once heard someone who write journals everyday said: If I go to bed without writing journal, I feel one day slip by without leaving any trace. In this sense, it’s not exaggeration to say: I blog, therefore I exist. You can also aim something lofty, to inspire and touch others. Then you need to put your heart and efforts in blogging, do it diligently and continuously.
One of the distinct features of weblogs is it’s flexibility. The flexibility manifested in many ways: content, usage, format, purpose, etc. The function of setting privacy can not only give bloggers the leeway of choosing what to share and protect their privacy, but also helped the writing process. I can scribble down the half-baked idea and keep it just to myself since I am not quiet comfortable sharing with others. It’s tentative, messy and fragmented. Later on, as I build on my idea, I can go back and easier change the settings of the blog entry. This flexibility of setting privacy level is, indeed, critical.
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Hey PingPing -
i’ve always wondered about the privacy settings in blogs. While blogs are popular among teenagers, they also tend to upload a lot of personal pictures unto their blog spaces, and “lock” the albums if necessary. However, it turns out that “private” photo albums are not that private anyway, especially for celebrities. There was this huge news in Taiwan a while back that one teen celebrity put dozens of her — pics on her blogs. Clearly the entire album wasn’t made invisible, but it was password-protected. Then some hacker(s) came, took all the pics, and posted them on the Internet. What is it with people that they do not respect privacy of others? Or we can hardly stay purely private online?