Sullivan has an interesting take on blogging, which I love. One aspect of this form of writing that he feels is the most important is the freedom it provides. Instead of sitting there and reviewing your piece several times before you submit it, your thoughts are transferred instantly to the web, available to any reader interested in reading it. Sullivan compared this uninhibited form of writing to taking a narcotic calling it, “intoxicatingly free”.
This liberating sense of writing also comes with risk. Through a blog, your ideas are subject to any form criticism from anyone. When constructing a formal piece of writing, however, one must stick to a main idea and make sure that the facts in this idea are true. The writer must then get approvals from editors and other bosses and does not receive feedback from his intended audience for quite sometime. Blogging has no such filter. The act of putting your most recent ideas into text reveals something personal about writer according to Sullivan. This makes the blogger much more vulnerable as he/she will receive much more brutal and personal attacks on their writing. Although the immediacy of blogging is thrilling, it too reveals an intimate part of the writer.
This is what scares me about blogging, the fact that my personal thoughts and views are now available for anyone to look at and for anyone to comment on. It’s a daring game in a sense, to put yourself out there in a way that makes you feel free, yet at the same time putting yourself in a position that allows virtually anyone to attack your personal views and morals.
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