Have you ever felt the need to express yourself better? Have you ever felt that your opinions must be heard? Well, in truly democratic governance, freedom of writing is a right and is one such right which must be exploited to the maximum for, the pen is mightier than the sword. Blogging allows you to express your thoughts on a more widespread medium of communication, the internet. The content that you write is called blogs. Your blogs can be read by as many as a million people. This is not exaggeration. Blogging has become one of the most popular online activities. With options to blog in your own mother tongue, more and more people are joining the club of bloggers. Let us look at blogging from an amateur’s points of view and briefly describe it.

What is a blog?

Blog is the word used to describe websites, where users post their comments either in the form of an article or just a few lines. The posted comments can be viewed by all users who log in to the website. The topic of discussion of in blogging terms, a thread, may be anything from politics to cookery and cleaning. Blogging sites are amazing platforms to learn and discuss a large number of issues and broaden your horizon of knowledge. Blogs which are short are commonly called micro blogs. Blogging doesn’t limit itself to text blogs alone. You can post your favorite song along with its review or comments; you can post videos (vlog), picture and sketches (photo blog and art blog). Possibilities are many for you to explore them. Originally blogging websites were used by people to maintain an online diary, where they would jot down the musings if their everyday life along with pictures. This was widely read.

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