Blogging Critical Review

Blogging has become a more popular method of communication in the 21st century. A person can use a verity of host websites to host their blog on such as BlogSpot, Face Book and MySpace. These sites and many others allow users to interact with friends, family and colleagues as often as they wish. Blogging can just help you; it can also hurt you in your professional life or your personal life.

A recent film “Julie and Julia” tells the story of Julie who is living in New York with her Fiancée; Julie is an aspiring writer who uses her blog to tell her story. Before Julie decided to blog about the challenge she gives herself, she blogged about her personal life and used her blog for socializing with friends and family. Julie decides to take on the challenge of cooking every recipe from Julia Child’s cook book in 1 year. As her challenge continues, she blogs about both the food she cooks and her personal life. Julie ends up driving her Fiancée away and ultimately ruining her personal life but someone decides to meet with her and publish her blog as a book and she becomes a thriving author.

The film clearly demonstrates the positives and negatives to blogging. Like Julia some people can become recognized if they want to become a professional author, others will blog about everything that happens in their life and can end up ruining their personal life. Some businesses will use blogs to communicate with their clients and tell them about events and future products and services that they will be offering; this allows the blog to serve as a tool for promotion. In turn, a blog can also hurt a business if they blog about things that they might want to keep secret and not tell the competition. If someone wants to blog for social reasons, they may find someone to talk to and get advice on their problems and issues. A problem that can arise from this would be a stalker learning everything and anything about them and potentially hurting the blogger. News, recreation and entertainment all have similar positives and negatives. If there is a blog that relates to any of these areas, it will allow for news to spread and for words and current events to be heard. A negative could be decease is sales if people are able to get all the information they want on your blog instead of buying a newspaper or attending a baseball game. Like all technologies, blogging can be abused someone can find out anything and anything about what you are blogging and they will have access to anything they want to know. One needs to be careful about what they blog because it can always come back to hurt them and others around them. It isn’t smart to put anything personal on a blog because you don’t know who is viewing your blog.