Blogging

I'm gonna keep this a short one. Haven't realise how blogging has made me into a slave until now. There are still a million things for me to do and yet I on my pc and blog. Moments like this makes me ponder on who is the master and who is the slave.

It also spark on this question of why I start blogging in the first place. Initially, I refuse to give anyone my blog's address for the fear that others will have a chance to peek into my world. I only allow Wendy and YZ's eyes to roam here for the fact that both are really close to me. But then someone told me that if I don't want anyone to read my blog, I could always keep a diary. True. But I write better on the keyboard. Seriously, I'm not joking. Now I cannot do my assigment with pen and paper. How the technology had enslaved me. Tsk tsk..

Well, the reason why I started to share my blog with others is because I want people to be critical about my writing. I want to write for an audience. Practising for my future career. (Haha) So I must be bold enough to write and allow comments from others. It is more for commenting on the style and topic/theme of writing rather than the content in itself. And the other time, my friend, Ivy, told me she read my blog and like it. It was such an encouragement for me.

However, a recent event makes me wonder if blogging is really such a great way for expressing my thoughts. We all know about this boy who make racist remarks on his blog and got himself in legal issues. I have actually read his blog and I seriously think that he must have been high on drugs to say such things. It was undigestable and was so uncalled for. But that happen to this guy which I don't know personally. To side track, just wondering what is the correct term used for such cases? People getting into trouble for writing something bad on their blog about something and get caught? I just couldn't remember it off hand.

Anyways, Just 2 days ago, a very close guy friend of mine told me that he got into trouble with the stuff he wrote on his blog. I was really pissed off. Not for the fact that he wrote something bad or the person that reported him. But for the reason that we are accountable for even what we wrote in our online diary. If I have to vet through what I want to write about, it won't be as authentic and raw as it is intended to be. It has loses the meaning of it all.

On the other hand, after thinking of it for awhile, I think that maybe I am wrong.

A pen is mightier than a sword. That is why in ancient China , Emperor Qing ordered all the scholar books and writen document to be burned. He realise that words have a huge impact on others. It has the abilty to influence our thinking. Like how the debate about the imfamous Da Vinci Code novel by Dan Brown. Words are really powerful and we need to be dicerning to know the facts from the fiction. So that is why writers must be responsible for the things they write about and practice discretion and ethics.

That does not mean that I think my friend did the wrong thing. I just think he is unlucky. Of all people, why must it be him. And the things that he says must have been what he felt. And why must he be faulted for how he feels?

Hmm.. anyway, this is suppose to be a short entry. So I shan't go on further. I hope my entries so far have not offended anyone in anyway though.