Blogs are strange beasts, each as individual as the blogger
themselves. You can’t run a Google search without finding a blog on your chosen topic. Blogs are freedom of speech at its best – and sometimes, worst.
With Google alerts set on a variety of topics, I’m treated
to a handful of new blogs every day. Some days I simply can’t take the time to
read any of them, but I generally look at one or two when I have a quiet moment.
Lately I’ve noticed an uncomfortable trend in blogs – bashing.
The Internet is populated by only twelve people and eleven
of them have a gzillion screen names each. I wouldn’t kid you about that. It has to be. I must be the only person who represents myself as only the writer and the “real me.” That’s all the multiple personality disorder I can do. The other
eleven people are taking over all the bandwidths.
Okay. I’m being silly. My point is that the Internet
provides a never before enjoyed anonymity to everyone. So…does our anonymity
give us permission to post truly hurtful things about another person? I think
not.
Things blogged about today will live on for no one knows how
long. The Internet grows new storage every day. Five years. Fifteen? Fifty?
It’s anyone’s guess how big the cloud will grow. The dregs of thought and spirit, and the enlightened and wonderful reside side-by-side. In a hundred years, what will future generations decide most realistically reflects those of us blogging today? The nasty or the delightful?
I can’t speak for you, but I know which camp I want to be
in.
Rayne Forrest
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