Blogging communities

Blogs come in all different forms and shapes. They are not specific to one genre and are often arranged to suit a specific purpose. Several different types of blogs include; personal blogs, corporate blogs, political blogs, travel blogs, news blogs, music blogs, and media blogs. Personal blogs can be defined as a type of online journal or diary where anyone can create a page and post their thoughts, activities and feelings. This is a popular form of blogging for younger generations, especially teenages. An example of this is twitter; a forum for anyone (especially teenagers and young adults) to post whatever thoughts they wish to with friends, family, and other public members. Twitter is also quite popular with celebrities as it gives them a change to create a closer relationship with their fans. By becoming a 'fan' of someones you can follow their updates and latest posts, creating a virtual relationship between participants. Travel and political blogs allow people open discussion with a common interest as a community. People can share their opinion, information and personal experiences with each other and the information can be easily accessed by all those interested, even if they live in different countries all over the world. Travel blogs also allow people to share photos with each other of the different countries and monuments they've seen. One of the best features about blogs is that they can be censored from public access and only certain people are able to enter the blog. This is a great feature for businesses as they are able to create a blog for all work members to view and discuss bussiness related ideas, in a quick and easy manner. Blogs allow communities to grow and share with each other on a much larger scale than non virtual organisations or groups, because millions of people can be accessing the information at the same time all over the world.

References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog