Blogging To Keep In Touch
Blogs have exploded on the Internet in the last 10 years, covering a wide variety of topics. They have ranged in scope from personal diaries to blogs such as this one that cater to a wider audience. More recently, people have started using blogs as a means of updating family and friends of an important life event. These “event blogs” are being created to write about everything from the preparation for their wedding day to the difficult journey of a family member undergoing a serious illness.
These blogs differ from the wider-audience blogs in that they are catering to a select group of family and friends, and differ from personal diary blogs in that they are created to chronicle one specific event with long durations. For example, we have a family friend who’s daughter spent a semester abroad in Europe, and she started a blog to post photos and details of her travels. She was able to keep in touch with a wider circle of people than she would have been able to by individual emails and phone calls, and was able to circulate her photos and chronicle her travels across Europe in detail.
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