The blog phenomenon

BLOGGING PHENOMENON
Abstract
Nowadays there are about 100,000 millions blogs and 9,000 are appearing every day. This phenomenon is due to some reasons that we´re going to explain. There are so many blogs that maybe someday regular sites won´t exist anymore. Politics, journalists etc, use blogs to promote their jobs or points of view but mostly people with ages between 14 to 34 years old seem to rule the blog world. The blog community is known blogosphere and the person, who maintains the blog, is called blogger. May have one or several collaborators. This article is only been able to touch on some topics about the blogging and facebook phenomena. It´s mostly about the influence on teenagers.
Introduction
In this report, we will seek to explore the meaning and significance of the blogging and facebook phenomenon and the influence of it on the teenager’s relationships. We´ll begin this exploration by looking at the definition of the term, the origins of the phenomenon, and how individual blogs might be classified. From there, we´ll look at the strengths and weaknesses of the medium.
Overview of the Blogging Phenomenon Definitions
The term "weblog" was first used by Jorn Barger on his Robot Wisdom website in 1997 (Auburn 1999, and Blood 2000) and is now used to describe personal websites that offer "frequently updated observations, news, headlines, commentary, recommended links and/or diary entries, generally organized chronologically." (Werbach 2001) While there are many websites that are frequently updated, "what makes a Weblog a Weblog is that it's organized chronologically and designed for short, frequent updates. In other words, Weblogs represent the online intersection of people and time." (Werbach 2001)
A blog is contraction of the word web log. Blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in