Week 3 and blogging practice

The article we read this week talks about blogging as social workers as a form of public journaling, marketing, and communication between other social workers. It is true that social media and the internet have added a new dimension to the possibilities of sharing new ideas to larger groups of people. Information of any kind is accessible to everyone in an instant and an audience in any part of the world (where they have access to the internet) is possible. It is a connection with others who you may not be able to speak to face to face or even over the phone.

I think there is also a great responsibility to represent your opinions as exactly what they are: opinions. There is also a greater need for us all to be more discriminating in what we read on the internet to decipher between fact, fiction, and plain old opinion. But I think the internet and blogging has created a new environment for others to share ideas, philosophies, and be exposed to ways of thinking or viewpoints that may not have been possible before the internet. And there is certainly no turning back to life before the web.