So Many Choices

We have seen through time how people evolve and come up with new things for their comfort. It’s been like this through history and will continue to be. The industrial revolution, for instance, is one of the most important examples of this, how we invented new things for our convenience and comfort. Internet is of course one of our greatest inventions in the last centuries. Today, imagining a world with no Internet is nearly impossible since it has become such a large basis in our lives. This really makes a lot of things much easier like for example researching things and finding information since we already have online encyclopedias. Along with the internet came social networks like for example Facebook or Myspace that have also become a very important tool for people, to find old friends, meet new ones and keep in touch. Another big thing that has risen with Internet is Blogs.

There are a lot of people who are unfamiliar with blogs. Sarah Boxer from New York Review of Books explains it perfectly. “A blog, for those who don't know, is a journal or log that appears on a Web site. It is written on line, read on line, and updated on line. It's there for anyone with an Internet connection to see and (in many cases) comment on.” That explains it exactly, blogs are changing a lot of things since it is much more convenient than newspapers or even magazines. The thing about blogs that give them huge advantage is that you can jump form one thing to another, get news how they are and find how people think about it and even comment and discuss about it. Now you can’t do that on a newspaper. The only thing that happens is that not everyone is familiar with blogs and besides people are used to using classical methods to inform themselves.

“Reading blogs, it's pretty clear, is not like reading a newspaper article or a book. Blog readers jump around. They follow links. They move from blogs to news clips to videos on YouTube, and they do it more easily than you can turn a newspaper page.” Sarah Boxer also states this. I definitely agree on some part but also disagree on another. Yes there are people who can use blogs in such a way to do this but not everyone. Probably older people will never use a blog since it’s not their generation to do this. Also people including me for example are too lazy to do all this, and prefer just to hear the news and no need for anything more. Blogs are and will be a huge alternative to hear the news but I think that newspapers and magazines will always be there for a long time.