Last week, "master of oracle", Tom Kyte, came to our class as a guest speaker.
Since I was looking at his blogs the day before, when I saw him, I could picutre his daughter and oracle building pictures he put up on his blogs.
Blog is so intersting and definately friendly. When he commented how his blog makes his sales business easier, I could totally see why!
There are couple of blogs and websites that I check frequently and some of them are quite personal.
I check my friend's blog who lives in Canada and I feel like I see her every single day...
I also check Japanese retail store's website because the comments from customers and responses are so funny, and of course I have some personal attachment to the random retail store.
Also, I check the blog of this random guy because he is funny and I even know how his x-girlfriend could talk with the ghosts and on the first day of the date, she bought toilet papers. I seriously feel like I am a stalker or something...
I think blog is the great way to shorten the distance between users and bloogers if, only if, your blog is interesting enough.
Although I never make comments on any of the blogs nor have any interaction, I know thier personal or business life for more than a year.
I think you as long as you are careful enough to what to say on the web, it is the great and fun way to approach large number of people but just know there are invisible stalkers though...
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I agree to your opinion. Blogs enable us to catch a glimpse of lifestyles of many people. When I check my friends' blog, I can see what they do even though I am so far from Japan.This gives me many motivations from my sense of competition.
But I am wondering one thing. That is why people can be very open on blogs.
Masa
Ayumi, you have a great point about how social networking makes stalkers out of us. It is tempting to browse on facebook for random people or things and it gives us the ability to know quite a bit about people whom have no idea who you are! Also, I think the fundamental difference between blogs and facebook or anything alike profiles is that the facebook profile is all about keeping image where is a blog is a much better way of knowing how somebody feels or what they are like? How long do you think before facebook has personal blogs on it that your friends can ready?!
I think Facebook already has the function where people can post their blogs. On the Japanese SNS, Mixi, people put diary, and that is the great way to get to know people's life, but I think then, people really need to be aware of what it means to be on the public though.
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