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Teen blogging
Halim Ismail
Special Launch
Blogging has been very popular nowadays. It is so popular that new blogs are
being created every day, by people of all ages and walks of life. However,
teenagers are better at blogging as compared to the rest because they have
been brought up together with the age of internet. While adolescents are also
learning to blog to express their innermost feelings, older writers find it
difficult to take on this new platform of writing. On contrary, young people
find much easier because that thatt using word processor and blogging is
about the same and it is much convenience as compared to writing diary.
A possible reason why blogging has become very popular to teenagers is the
ability to be heard, both authentically and anonymously. Blogs, now have the
function to allow or disallow visitors to view their site. The private ones
will provide a confirmation email from the blogger to their invited guest to
view their site. That is not all, teenagers can also blog anonymously by
using nicknames to avoid unnecessary embarassment and commotions.
Young writers do not have as much credibility as older and experienced writer.
Often their works are not published on magazines and journals. This
discourage adolescents from writing and getting chances to publish their work.
As one of the advantages of blogging is the ability to be able to publicized
and this is the reason why many younger writers choose to blog.
Between the fact that blogs provide young people with a chance to exercise
their impressive technical aptitude, to gain visibility without compromising
privacy, and to build a readership for their writing without having to jump
through the traditional hoops of the publishing industry, it is little wonder
that are so many teenagers with blogs. For some teenagers, blogging is even a
very social endeavor that allows them to meet people with similar interests
from all over the world. Many a blogging teen has discovered that having a
weblog on the internet is a great way to explore self-expression and, often,
to win positive feedback from new friends.
Article submitted Thursday, September 18, 2008
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