To finish this series on the significance of blogging, I should like to take on the issue of how cyberspace, through web logs, can have a positive effect on the formation of an adolescent. As I've said time and again, blogging can induce a feeling of importance within an individual by giving him/her the potential to express something to a vast population. For adolescents, this is more or less a dream come true. Attention from others is key to confidence building and to self realization. A web log can facilitate the process of confidence building by providing a constant source of attention with the safety of anonimity. Eventually, the emotional safety provided by purely textual communication can encourage adolescent bloggers to use bolder tactics to attract people in the real world.

In addition, an adolescent can be exposed to people outside of his/her own age group,race, class and overall culture when hosting a web log--making for a more enriched adolescent experience. Indeed, an international, inter-racial and multi-cultural cyber-community may be one of the major effects of the internet revolution.

Last but not least is the advantage of diversifying the means of communication between you and a person you see face-to-face on a daily or weekly basis. Before the internet, the television and the telephone, there was mail. People wrote letters to each other all the time when they were far apart. Only once in a while could one see a loved one who lived considerably far. Today, you can write a e-mails to your next door neighbor without bothering with envelopes or stamps--but for what? Why should one write a letter to someone whom he/she sees on a weekly or daily basis? The reason is this: one is NOT the same person in reality as one is in writing or over the telephone.Though reality provides the most intimate interaction, diversification of communication tools is a step toward broadening and deepening relationships that have already been established face-to-face.

And with that said, my discussion ends...

Thank You

ja