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Friday, 23 October 2009 |
By Owen Jones
 Not a day goes by without blogs being developed by individuals of all age groups and from all strata of life, but when it comes to blogging, teen authors are truly on the cutting edge of the interest group. This is because today's youth are the first generation to have grown up with the Worldwide Web at every stage of their growth, many adolescents have a seemingly instinctive sense of how to use online technology to communicate their innermost thoughts and ideas.
Older writers usually experience a learning curve when they start to blog, but most young people find using a word processor and blogging software feels more spontaneous and direct a mode of communication than writing in a diary ever could.
One of the reasons why blogs have experienced an explosion in the teen community and are growing by leaps and bounds, is the reality that they provide a unique mixture of visibility and secrecy. A teenager can invite links and peers to read his or her blog with a simple email, thereby gaining interest and possibly even applause.
It is however, true, that this new-found visibility often comes the possibility of embarrassment, but the fact that it is possible to blog incognito by using an invented handle or pen name cancels out a lot of the possibility for humiliation. Many a blogging teenager lives in fear that a parent or guardian will discover his or her blog, but by publishing under an pen name, a youngster can pour out his or her secrets without the fear of being traced.
Outside the world of blogging, adolescent writers often have very restricted opportunities to be published. Magazines and journals are often reluctant to publish young authors who may not have as much standing as older writers with a great deal of experience and extensive credits to their names.
This can discourage young people from writing or from looking for opportunities to broadcast their work. By blogging, young people can begin to gain a following of readers without first having to win the notice and support of an editor or publisher, who may not be very interested in teenaged authors.
Besides the fact that blogs provide young people with a prospect to exercise their remarkable technical aptitude, to gain visibility without risking their privacy, and to create a readership for their writing without having to jump through the traditional hoops of the publishing industry, it is little surprise that there are so many youth with blogs or even a number of different blogs on several different niche subjects.
For some adolescents, blogging is also a very important social undertaking that permits them to meet people with similar interests from all over the planet. Many a blogging adolescent has found out that having a weblog on the worldwide Web is a fantastic way to explore self-expression and, often, to win positive feedback from new contacts.
Therefore, if you get the opportunity to encourage a teenager to start blogging you should do it. Think about it, you could be encouraging a future Booker Prize winner.
Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on several subjects, but is currently involved with Plantronic CS50 Headset devices. If you would like to know more, please go to our website at http://plantronicscs50headset.com
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