Advantages
· Readers are better informed which is one of the contributing factors to the long-term health of our societies and economies.
· Blogs have potential to help develop stronger relationships as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the person/group of people through blogs.
· Blogs can act as a medium to share knowledge in a more user-friendly way.
· Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback.
· Blogs can build the profile of the writer
· It's also acceptable to discuss topics or ideas that are not fully developed yet. The temporal nature of blogging makes it easier to write a brief introduction with a promise to deliver more lately.
· Blog readers expect a more relaxed form of language, allowing authors to write in a much more casual tone than they would if they were writing an article. For most authors, this is much easier
Disadvantages
· Most people don’t have very much to say that’s interesting to the public (different types of people expect different things and the writer cannot meet them all), and/or are unable to write down their ideas in a compelling and clear manner.
· Blogs are easy to start and hard to maintain. Writing coherently is difficult and time-consuming. So, we cannot say that it is a cheap strategy as it eats up time, which is very important. As a result, many blogs are not updated, thus resulting in the public losing interest in the blog.
· Blogs also take away the great feeling of finding things on your own through research and exploration, and blogs aren’t always accurate.
· It’s also hard to be unique and original these days as many people have written about the same or similar topics over and over again.
· The writing level is often not a good example for language learners to read.
· It may be difficult to filter out the information that is required as there are a humongous number of blogs
· Some budding bloggers can feel a bit intimidated when writing for public readership.
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