Social networking sites continue to
be the world’s fastest growing medium of modern communication. By using blogs,
chat rooms, email or instant messaging, you are able to connect with family,
friends or with the world at large. Such websites are useful internet tools that
help you to keep in touch with other users as well as to meet new people with similar
interest whom you may share your commentaries, views or stories.
Different people have different purposes
on why they maintain accounts in websites. And whatever these purposes are, one
must know his stand in the social media.
That is why studying online writing is
important to internet users. It is not just about posting anything under the sun,
or giving yourself the freedom to express your feelings, thoughts or sentiments
in any way you want. Nor it is a means to hurt other people, to defame or
contradict one’s view or idea which you think does not agree with your
own. And yes it is possible, as possible
as anonymity is in the social network. Some people may lie about their identities
in real life so that they are free to do their own thing online. Being someone
else in the internet allows them to do so. It is the reason why sometimes, we
do not really know who we are dealing with in any social websites.
But this is not how responsible
online writers do their works. They know that the proper use of social
networking sites is one of the standards they are ought to follow. It’s because
as a responsible user you are aware of every detail that you post over the
internet.
A social media campaign reminds us: “…what
we posts online stays there forever…”
Once information is posted online,
you cannot take it back. It remains on the internet even if it has long been
deleted from the sites.
And this is what online journalism
taught us…to understand the standards and guidelines in posting your comment,
blog or article. Procedures and techniques aren’t really of much important for
even an out of school kid would learn how to do so. It is the ethics that we
learn that really counts.
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