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Suzanne Henderson
Professor Mary Gomrad
ENC 1101
23 October 2014
Blogging In the 21st Century
The technology age is what historians are now calling our decade because
of the ever-prevalent use of technology and how fast it is reshaping the way humans
interact and behave. Life styles are altering solely based on technology, especially
concerning the Internet. The Internet provides an infinite source for information
that is easily accessed by the majority of people. Blogs have become more and more
popular, allowing anyone to voice their opinion and have the information spread
worldwide. Have blogs shaped modern technology?
As the Internet has evolved, the degree of anonymity has decreased and the
personalization of the Internet has increased. At the forefront of these two changing
trends are blogs, (also known as weblogs) which are a regularly updated and
personalized web page that contains entries dated an in reverse chronological order
(Herring, Scheidt, Wright, & Bonus, 2005b). A blog is one of the newest forms of
online self-presentation and self-expression that has been facilitated by the age of
the Internet (Guadagno, 2008). While there is a long history of technological
advances enhancing the nature of interpersonal interaction, the Internet is different
in many ways (Guadagno, 2008). The internet allows people to personalize virtually
anything, making blogging fun and unique for everyone.

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Blogging is written for literally any amount of topics. That is why blogs have
become a staple part of the Internet community. Sharing ideas and information is
easier than ever. Accessing this information is just as easy, with the help of search
engines, typing in a phrase will bring up millions of links to the related phrase with
the click of a button.
Blogging not only has become an important aspect to the internet as a whole,
but benefits modern society and makes humans lives much easier and better. Blogs
have created an entirely new community that virtually did not even exist 10 years
ago.

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Works Cited
Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J. C., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M., Welsch, P., Wrights,
E., & Yu, N. (2005a). Conversations in the blogosphere: An analysis from the
bottom up. In Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii international conference on
systems sciences.
Guadagno, Rosanna E., Bradley M. Okdie, and Cassie A. Eno. "Who Blogs? Personality
Predictors of Blogging." Computers in Human Behavior 24.5 (2008): 19932004. ScienceDirect. Web.