Though there are still many problems with blogs, in general,
Sulliva supports blogs a lot, because it has many advantages indeed.
The first one is when writers write blogs, they don’t need
to think too much. Unlike other publication writers, bloggers have less
responsibility for their words. Bloggers
can write before events settled and a clear pattern emerges. As Sullivan
writes: “We blog now-as news reaches us, as facts emerge.” Because there is no
one to editing a bloggers’ blogs, the content of them can be much more
personality, more alive, and more fresh. What’s more, it is hard and expensive
for a writer to publish his works in other formal. Like Sullivan writes, “Every
professional writer has paid some dues waiting for an editor’s nod, or enduring
a publisher’s incompetence”. So, for a nameless writer, he can hardly get
readers, though he has a very good production. But bloggers just need a
computer and Internet, in this way, what he need do to publish things is just
click of the Publish Now button. It is very easy and free, which let everyone
can write something and share them with other people. The second advantage for
blog is writes can get more feedback. Readers can respond easily, quickly, and
directly to the author. Though these response maybe more brutal than any
editor, they are more approximates to the facts. Writers need them to improve
themselves. The third, author need to correct errors and acknowledge mistakes
in time, they can rewrite again and again. Furthermore, he can also change his altitude
alone with the whole situation change. The fourth, thanks to the hyperlink,
authors can use less word to describe a thing more particular. Sometimes a link
is valued than many words, and the authors don’t need to worry about the
copyright problem. The fifth, a bloggers can also learn a lot of things from
writing a blog. Because there would be some readers who are more familiar with
what the author writes. So they can provide many useful information and links
to the author. On the other hand, these things make the article more
comprehensive.
I think these five advantages are the main answer to the
question in the title. In the end, using a sentence from Sullivan as a
conclusion, “blogging is therefore to writing what extreme sports are to
athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, and more alive”.
But
I really disagree with Sullivan reasons to support blogs. First, I think the
freedom for the blogs writers lead a lot of problems to the world. Because they have less responsibility for what
they write on the blog, so they can write something without thinking carefully.
There are many extremely thinking on the blogs, which leads teenager who are
easily influenced by others, wrong views on the world. For example, every time after the government adopts
a new policy, there must be a lot of people writing on their blogs to analyze
it. Many of them will be against the new policy and think it just brings
benefits to the top drawer. Although this is may help the teenagers think critically,
it also makes them lose confidence in the government easily, which is not very
good for them. Second, it seems like that people more like to write things that
are against the author rather than support. So it easily make the writers lose
confidence when he or she reads the responds from others, The third, because the
author can correct his or her mistake easily, so they don’t pay more attention
when they write it at first time. It is a consequence that there are more
mistakes on the blogs than on other media forms. The forth, because writes can
use links easily when the write on the internet, their ability of describe just
by words is gradually decreasing, which may one of the reasons why we don’t
never have Shakespeare in the modern life. The fifth, though blogs are a good platform
for studying form others, but there are some way better than it. Because we don’t
know who is writing to us before the computer, we can’t know why he has authority,
and whether he says is right or not. So if we learn things from library, it will
be more effective and the equality can be guaranteed.
At
first I am really agree with Sulliva and his conclusion. But today I write on
the other side to support my first essay. I find I have a lot of reasons to
disprove his ideas. So, here I counter to his reason why blogs are good for our
life one by one. I think it is very interesting to write is. Sometimes, the
fact depends on who you write it. 
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