Blogging..
So what happens when u have an exam and u cannot focus because of all the news on the TV... come online.. !
I was surfing the uae blogs and few questions "rested" peacfully in my mind. I remember when everyone was "flickering" and how suddenly Etisalat blocked it because of nudity issues. The blogger community worldwide is just as a big "word flicker" environment. You'd find blogs which talk about sex and sex issues which arent blocked by Etisalat and others which are blocked. Thats okay.. thats normal just like there are porn sites which arent blocked and others blocked (don't ask me how did i know but i bet not every porn site is blocked)
Now it all depends on how u look at the blogger community. I always keep repeating "its always about marketing" and so is every single blog. They would either market a thought, a word, an idea, a project, and ad, an article, a video ... name it. Its just like u are entering an area which has a lot of shops each is designed differently and with a different product. You'd have convenience shops, luxury shops, bookshops.. name it. Now you can stop yourself from entering each outlet by reading its name or from its display. Same happens with blog pages. Everyone wants to market its own thoughts or practices. Some might find it quite normal to talk about their "experiences" whatever they were and that includes sexuality too. Others would talk about politics under the title of "world wide web" !!!! Should that be blocked?
Surfing few of those UAE blogs, i frankly did find those who talked about their sexual experiences here and some of which were "ranting" about certain issues!! I wonder would it feel as awkward to read about how a guy managed to get a "prostitute" for few dirhams if he just mentioned that he was in a western country? Should there by any rules and regulations as to what to write in your blog? Do blogs really reflect the society and the country the person is living in? the thing with bloggers is that its difficult to block..! Say Etisalat blocked me today, i can simply start a new blog and blab about whatever i used to do.. ! hmm...
Anyways, just a thought that i wanted to type down. : ) or i should say to "blog" ;)
3 comments:
the marketing freak in you has awakened :p
so how would u classify ur blog as? a personal blog.. just random thoughts n stuff..
dyou know that in KSA blogger was blocked.. don't ask me why.. let's hope that etisalat never blocks it!!
mine .. lol .. just thoughts !
3an KSA..
its easy to access porn "blogs" .. fa its just the same thing.. b3dain blogs can be used as a tool for people to speak their mind.. especially when it comes to politics..
lol i wonder how u know abt some porn sites that are NOT blocked :P
but coming back to ur question, i think it's a valid one. how do u classify what should be blogged and what shouldnt?
i think blogs, at the end of the day, are personal diaries and we all have different interests and different INTERESTING personal lives :P there can't be rules to blogging and etisalat cannot block ALL blogs, just because one of them has sex in it.
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