Advantages & Disadvantages of Blogging

What is a blog? It is an online webblog. Nowadays, most of the people communicate through the internet. There are many ways to communicate with people and blogging is one of the common ways and the video which I watched in the youtube was discussed about a blog. It was mentioned that a blog is like a piece of code on the internet. You can write about TV shows, music, photography, and politics. Therefore if you write something, people in the world can share any lots of information, even bad news. In addition, there are political insights too.

There are advantages and disadvantages of blogs. First, it helps us to start conversations. For example, news becomes conversations because people have questions or comments about those kinds of situations. These small things become good conversations. The second thing is we can have journalism. It is like a report what you think about and they can do things that the media cannot do. Thus, we can express our feelings through the internet and it gives us democracy back. The other thing is it connects people’s insights and opinions by reading blogs, so sometimes it gives power to people. The fourth thing is blogs give a real image of what is really happening such as Iraq war. In this video, a man took pictures of his injury after the war. It was really horrible. I realized that it is a real world. I think showing reality of world is a kind of advantages. However, the most impressive thing about blog for me is about saving lives. Blogs can cause lots of bad things, but it also saves one’s life. According to the video, there was a girl who was about to commit suicide. However her friends found out that in the blog and defend her from killing herself. At that moment, the girl was depressed about her life and she does not have any motivation with living, but when she did not commit suicide, she knew what to do with her life. In my opinion, this is the most powerful thing about blogging.

In contrast, there are also disadvantages of blogs. First, it is possible that you will pay no attention to your real friends and you will be closer with other friends who met you in the internet. We know and some are nice, but if you met strange people, you can be hurt by someone. I know the one story about a man who died because of making friends through the internet. One day, he decided to meet them and when he went to the appointment place, he was killed by them. They were kind of tickers. Therefore, it is really dangerous to make through the internet because we do know their faces and they do not know our faces. The next thing is we cannot know if things that are written in blogs are true or not. In this video, there was a girl who is a lesbian. She posted about her life and people criticized her a lot. Finally, she erased her blog. However, the most surprise thing was it was a made-up story. One blog owner made a story and she was just a character. The thing that I learned through this video was even if, there is a proof, we always need to suspect and be careful. The last thing is about personal thing. When you write something in blogs, it means you are sharing about yourself, so every time when you write something you need to be careful.

In my opinion, it is natural to have advantages and disadvantages and even if there are disadvantages, I think blogging is really necessary. If you want to post something, just make sure that you have to distinguish what to write or not because sometimes it causes a big fight.  

Real Friendship

What do you think about a real friendship? Friendship is really important thing between you and your friends. Although, you do not have friendship, you can make friends which are called fair-weather friend. Fair-weather friends are friends who are with you when they are needed. It means that they are using friends. Sometimes, I think about friendship if it will go forever or not and I realized that if you and your friends really trust each other, I think it is possible to go forever. However, if you are really close to someone but you cannot trust him or her, that is not consider as a real friend. It is because someday they can betray each other. I think everyone knows how difficult to make real friends, even only one. If you have more than 5 real friends, I think you are rich enough already.

           In my opinion, the most important thing to have real friendship is to trust and understand each other. In addition, you need to know how to cover your friend’s complex. For me, friendship equals to trusting and understanding. I have never had bad experiences about my friends because I have more than 3 real friends. I am always thankful to them. Though, I had extremely good friends, I could feel that trusting and understanding are needed and I learned it from my friend who suffered a lot because of some mean friends. When I met my friend at first, she was not really an open-minded person because of her past. She could not tell any stories because when she used to tell secrets to her friends they used to tell everybody. Thus, she was scared to tell secrets. When I encounter her, I felt pity on her. Finally, she left Korea.  Even if you think she or he is my closest friend, you have to think of some terrible situations like this situation. You need to know how to take care of yourself too and if you want to have a real friend, make sure that you observe a lot. Recently, I asked someone to be my real friend. When I asked this simple question, it took me more than a week to ask because I was worried that if that someone would refuse it. However luckily, we became good friends. I know it will take much time to be more friendly but I really trust her so that is why I could suggest to be my real friend. I think this blog help me to express my feelings and I hope she will read this article. If we become closer, if my friend is sad, I want be a big help for her and if my friend is having some problems, I would like to help her to solve them or I will give advice to her.

           Are you willing to sacrifice for your friends, the attention of others, your ambitions or your wants for anyone? If not, no one will consider you as a real friend. At last I assure you that having a real friend will change one’s life. I think I am willing to sacrifice for my friends.

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.H.I.P

 

Friendship means in a general way to the state of being friends, or the feelings that friends have for each other. It is related to friends. Just knowing each other is not friendship but if you really like someone as a faith friend, it is a time when you can make friendship. Both of you need to trust each other. You can think friendship is not really a big deal in your life, but in my opinion it is a serious thing because it can change your life. I think I realized that when I was in grade 9 because my friends were very effective to me and I could experience lots of good things from them. I think if you want to know more about friendship, I think the best thing is to experience more things by making friends. For instance, you can experience by betrayal or believing. You will have more opportunities to meet different kinds of friends. For example, some friends can be extroverted, but some are can be introverted so that you can make more knowledge about friends. However sometimes, you can have a hard time to make real friends but if you be honest to them, at last they will believe you. Therefore, just be honest to yourself and to your friends.

I know the story about my friend and she had a hard time with her friend. When she was in grade 7, she was a fan of famous singer in South Korea. When there was a concert, she went there and she did not come to school. She has a friend who was really close to her at that time and she told that she went to that famous singer’s concert. However, the next day, her friends told  everybody, even the teachers knew already, so she was in trouble for the whole year. When I heard this story, I was shocked and I realized that friends can change my life. I was sorry for her because when I was in grade 7, I did not like her because of that rumor, but now she is one of my closest friends.

In brief, having real friends is very important, but you need to be friendly to the people around you, even if they are not really close to you. Just be friends with them. I do not mean do not believe all friends. I just want to say that friends can change your life and it will be helpful for you to make real friends.