Wednesday 20 October 2010

Blogs: Advantages and Disadvantages

A blog is a type of website where people write things about themselves. It stands for web blog. It is basically an online journal where people can also post pictures, videos and links as well as talk and communicate with others.

Blogs are very helpful, as most blogs can be automatically organised, to reduce hassle. Also, people can leave responses to posts that people have written. Furthermore, external and internal links can be added to blogs which is a great feature when including a video or a picture in the blog. They are very quick as well as free, as when someone posts something the information can be instantly distributed to search engines, directories and readers.

 There are many risks of having a blog to your personal security. Children may use them and meet dangerous paedophiles. Blogs allow paedophiles to target children through the internet. People sometimes use blogs to target specific people and write anonymously about them, which is unneeded and makes a blog site seem negative, and just a place for slander.

All of this can be avoided by taking extra precautions for safety.  Appropriate methods to protect yourself and your data includes warning your children never to offer any personal information to people they meet via blogs, and pictures they post should be looked over to make sure they are provocative. Evaluating blog sites and checking whether it offers a safe , private password-protect blog.

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