Friday, April 14, 2006 @3:52 PM
Technology is advancing every single day, but is our society advancing along with it? Technology allows us to enjoy one of its fruits of labour - the online blogging system. It has made "diary-ing" easier through the ease of typing out our thoughts as compared to writing them on a book. Much less of a hassle? Hmmm, save the trees? Lol. But has blogging system made our society more backward, narrow-minded and conventional? The only difference that
should exist between having a blog and a diary is that one is high tech and the other is not. Despite that difference, both still functions as a diary right? Well, things have taken a turn. The online diary can no longer serve as a function of a diary. One has to be careful abt the words they use, you can't reprimand someone or comment on someone with harsh words. Isn't a diary suppose to a 'place' where you could talk about your day, and share your experiences? Instead of being able to openly express your views, we are now confined to a certain conduct. The so-called high-tech way of "diary-ing" caused us to be unable to voice out our thoughts and feelings. Any wrong words (as perceived by someone else) posted and the consequences is unimagineable.
I really feel this way abt blogging. wanwen asked me last weekend (i think), why aren't i blogging as often as i used to? I replied that there's nothing interesting abt it. Thinking abt my reply to her, i realized that i'm wrong. There are things to blog abt, but i just can't. I want to express my view point, but it's almost impossible. I would have to avoid saying significant things abt the event so that the parties would not realized that i'm talking abt it, and i have to be careful and sensitive of the words i used. It's really hard. At the end of the day, i rather not talk about the whole situation.
⥠lost for words and i drift.