From Market Stall Communication to Online Blogging

From Market Stall Communication to Online Blogging

As the marketplace in past centuries, to days social blogging in cyberspace connected with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, or an educational institution are considered place, with public access, as is the ancient market place considered a place. "Blogging, a contraction of the term weblogging, is perhaps best described as a form of micro- publishing. Easy to use, from any internet connection point, blogging has become firmly established as a web-based communication tool", (William, J.B. Jacobs, J. 2004). Technological advances during the past centuries have not diminished the need for people to keep a private daily diary or engage in gossip talk with others. Changes and advancement in technology provide tools that can instantly, and in real time, connect anybody by social media with another person anywhere in the world. People located in different cities, countries, continents or time zones, with no delineated borders. Web-based internet applications, provide without charges an ability to communicate with anybody at any time in our cyber world of today. 

         “Culture is uniquely developed in human beings. It strongly influences human behaviour and values” (Tuan ü, ü. F. 1977). Cultural needs of human communication can be satisfied with verbal communication and supplemented with today’s advancing technologies. Blogging is evolving similarly to previous inventions that enhanced human communications. Devices of printing, the typewriter, the telephone, and facsimile improved and strengthened human connection but were not readily accessible and available to most people. Today's Internet and associated technologies like social media, are readily available to most people in western countries and societies. Opportunities exist for individuals to engage in discussion about any topic that they feel a need to disseminate and openly to discuss. Blogging and social media are technologies that are now integrated into western societies education.  

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