Blog Social Networking

Blog Social Networking can be a way to reach out your ideas to a wide variety of people out in the internet. Former President Barack Obama "had used the Web to lower the cost of building a political brand, create a sense of connection and engagement, and dispense with the command and control method of governing to allow people to self-organize to do the work." Obama was up against Senator Clinton, who already had a lot of recognition, and then Senator McCain. This just shows that there is a tremendous power in opening citizen access to government. There are many benefits of these technologies to society, such as being able to know all these information almost instantly and at a very low cost. 

But along with the benefits also come with some dangers. As people are behind the screens, they tend to have more courage to express things that they usually would not say face-to-face. For example, JuicyCampus, a site that encouraged students to talk trash about their peers in an anonymous forum back in 2007 has brought up a lot of controversies before it was shut down in 2009. Nowadays there are many younger audiences on the Web, I would hope that netizens be aware of these audiences and be aware of the actions that they're doing can be reflected into children and it is not healthy for children. Although people should speak out their opinions and thoughts, they should be aware with the word choices and impacts of a violent sentence. 

References:

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.html

https://www.chronicle.com/article/theyre-backtheyre-bad-/48220