Thing 4- Why must we Communicate?

What is a blog? According to wikipedia, a blog is a vehicle for a group of people with common interests to communicate, share, and learn in spite of barriers of time and distance.

Communication is both a give and take process, where the channeling of information is transfered from sender to receiver.  Within the internet world, communication is a little different.  The reasons are obvious to most if not all.  Following is a list of reasons that I think communication between sender and receiver is delayed and misinterpreted.

• It is difficult to determine if someone on the other end of the computer is being sarcastic or straight forward, thus people may read into things the wrong way, "Literally."  
• There is a huge delay in responses when someone decides to get up and move away from their computer without telling the person on the other end.
• A message may get lost somewhere in cyberspace.
• The next generation may never learn proper etiquette on the ways of communicating. For example, the importance of looking at someone when they are speaking to you.

For a sender to write an entire blog and not get any feedback, makes for a boring story.  Everyone wants to feel like they are being heard.  This may be one of various reasons why computer geeks allowed a place for a commenter to say a polite response back to the sender such as on facebook, or opps here.  I must admit, I find it interesting that on facebook they only allow for people to hit the "like" button and not a "dislike button." Don't they know that everyone has a right to their own opinion.  I guess this is where you must write "WHY" you disagree with the other person instead of just hitting the "dislike button."

Questions:

• Commenting helps to create a sense of community and interaction because it gives others information about oneself.  Commenting also allows people to become friends with others that have similar interests.
•  I found that commenting is important when interacting with others.  If someone leaves a comment on my page, I will comment back with a simple, "thank you."  This shows the commenter that I appreciate their time in reading my blog.  It is important for others to see that you are being polite and thankful that they took the time to validate or debate with you. ;) Setting Boundaries is something else that you must do when blogging.  I believe that politics and personal relationships should not be discussed on internet forums.  This is where Setting Boundaries are an important entity on your own personal blog page.

Here are the blog addresses and names of my seven blogs:

                Blog Address                                                      Names

1. Guspainter.blogspot.com                                                 Scott
2. 23Thingssavail.blogspot.com                                     Stephanie
3. Wmstroopstoteacher.blogspot.com                           Stephanie
4. 23thingsbyme.blogspot.com                                             Amy                         
5. Fairclough23things.blogspot.com                                   Jim
6. Gringospanishteacher.blogspot.com                            Jason
7.  http://apsueducation.blogspot.com/                           Katy

I selected these seven blogs to comment and stay in touch with because they all seemed interesting. I absolutely love Stephanie's sweet tone and wonderful personality, Katie and Amy are both nice and welcoming if you have a question or concern, and Jason is helpful in keeping me up to date with my Spanish, everyone else I am still learning about through their posts.

• I continue to comment on everyone's blogs. Keeping track of all the posts that I write would make for a lengthy response.  Therefore, I will just say that I have enjoyed reading everything and if I find something that I can relate to, I tend to respond to it.