Advantages & Disadvantages of Blogs

• Advantages
  
  · You can share views & relate to other people that have the same interest as you
  · They show peoples interests so you can make new friends by commenting their posts
  · They are interactive so you can watch videos and play music
  · You can meet new people
  · They give you a chance to express your own personal views so if you agree/don't agree with something you can express yourself on your blog
  · People are able to comment on what you’ve said so they can back up your opinion and give you new ideas
  · You can share knowledge to help other people
  · They reflect peoples personalities so they are all individual and unique to that specific person
  · Pictures can be added to emphasise text
  
  Disadvantages
  
  · They are not that well known so not a lot of people now how to look at them or make their own one
  · They are open to all sorts of people so you could get peodaphiles looking at your blog
  · Not everyone can access them as not everyone has a computer
  · They often have specific audiences
  Take up a lot of time to set up and then to actually keep the posts updated
  · They are quite hard to set up for novices who don't really know what a blog is and what they can put on it
  · Certain views may be offensive to people that don't agree with you
  · Your blog can be hacked in to and people can start writing things on there that you didnt want
  · People who comment your blog can leave inappropriate pictures
  · As there is an availibility to comment your posts they can often attract negative views
  · Sometimes people blogs can be useless and boring as there is not always a specific point for them.