Web Blogging The Good, Bad and the Ugly. By: Heather Thomas

All About the Blogging Got a Blog? What is a Blog? How did it happen? What can you do with a Blog? What should you not do with a Blog? How can you be careful? Example of what could happen! Bibliography End

Got Blog?

What is a blog? Blog is short for “Weblog.” Personal or noncommercial website that uses a dated log format. Contains links to other websites and comments about them.links Updated frequently. Groups links by subjects.

How? 1993: Started with the very first blog with “Mosaic’s What’s New Page.” 1997: Grew into a site with more thoughts with “Robot Wisdom Weblog.” 1998: Only handful existed, but the numbers started growing. 1999: Blogger was released & Live Journal started. 2002: Blogger has over 750,000 users.

The possibilities… Publish your thoughts Get feedback Find people posting Blog posting Post photos AudioBlogger Privacy (Not all sites) Customize Profile

What you can do wrong… Give out personal information: -Daily activities -Address -Family information -Phone numbers -Dates Posting pictures. -Suggestive pictures.

How to be careful… Don’t write specific information. (Names of places, people, times, dates, etc.) Don’t post pictures. Make it so someone can’t tell who you are. Don’t put your real info on the profile. (Phone number, full name, “I’m an American on a military base in Germany.”, etc.) If you can, make it Friends Only and specify who is allowed to read it.

Be Careful, You Never Know Who’s Watching!

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The End QUIZ

Question #1 Blog is short for… A. Blogger or B. Weblog

Wrong! Blogger is the name of an actual journal site online. You can find it at Try Again Next Question

Right! The term Blog is short for the more technical term Weblog. Next Question

Question #2 A blog is not kept in a dated log format. A. True or B. False

Wrong! The blogs are structured for dated log format and are not randomly logged formatted. Try Again Next Question

Right! The blog is set up to record entries in a dated log format. It shows the entries in chronological order. Next Question

Question #3 Which of these is not a possibility of what you can do on a blog? A.Publish your thoughts.Publish your thoughts. B. Customize.Customize. C. Complete privacy on ALL blogs.Complete privacy on ALL blogs. D. Post photos.Post photos.

Wrong! You publish your thoughts in a blog when you write an entry about how you feel on a certain subject. Then your thoughts are there for others to see. It is one of the possibilities you can do on a blog. Try Again Next Question

Wrong! Customizing is one of the best possibilities you can do with your blog. You can change your profile picture, the background, the font, colors and how your journal looks in style. Try Again Next Question

Right! You do not have privacy on ALL blogs. Only a selected few allow you to change your entries so only your specified friends can see it. This is not a possibility for your blog. Next Question

Wrong! Another possibility you can have is to post photos on your blog. You can take the url of the photo and paste it in html format to post a photo or you can enter it through rich text. Try Again Next Question

Question #4 It is ok to give out personal information such as addresses, names, dates and times on your blog. A. True or B. False

Wrong! It is NOT ok to give out personal information on your blog. You have to be careful of predators and stalkers. Try Again Next Question

Right! You need to keep the personal information to yourself and only include things that cannot lead a predator to know where you will be and who you are. Next Question

Question #5 Which is a way to keep predators away? A.Post personal photos of yourself.Post personal photos of yourself. B.Don’t give out personal information.Don’t give out personal information. C.Write a journal entry of where you live.Write a journal entry of where you live.

Wrong! Posting personal photos of yourself on your blog is a dangerous thing. It can attract the predators to know what you look like and heighten the risk. Try Again Finish

Right! Again, you need to keep the personal information to yourself. That way you can be clear free of any oncoming predators. Finish

Wrong! Writing a journal entry of where you live is not what you need to do. That will only lead stalkers to you and attract unwanted attention. Try Again Finish

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