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Anatomy of bloggers

(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-03-01 08:12

Anatomy of bloggers

Why do people maintain blogs? What do they write in their blogs? What type of blogs do they frequently visit? Many such questions arose in my mind when I was surfing the Internet during my winter vacation. Over the last few days, I have tried to understand the online culture of young people by surfing through blogs and community websites/forums. What I found is that most of the blogs are full of reports on fashion, beauty, personal matters or gossips, and photographs of bloggers and celebrities.

There indeed are many high-quality blogs, which carry important information, statistics and constructive articles. But most of them are written by educated, experienced people who are no longer young. It would be nice to see Chinese youths using blogs to share the pride and glory of the country, experiences of life and other important information to help each other. Writing a blog about one's self is not bad but if the youths maintain blogs about trivial matters and become addicted to them then it should set alarm bells ringing.

K.M. Rehan Salahuddin,

Bangladeshi student at Wuhan University

Uncle Sam the bully

China has the right to feel annoyed with the United States selling a huge cache of arms to Taiwan and courting the Dalai Lama, which culminated in his visit to the White House. As the sole superpower, the US could have done lots of good but instead it has chosen to use its might and resources to spread death and destruction across the world and promote violence and conflicts.

The US invaded Afghanistan to avenge the 9/11 attacks, which in the first place was the result of its mistreatment of Arabs and undue support for Israelis. It has unleashed a reign of terror in Afghanistan and plans to destabilize Pakistan as well.

Unable to compete with China in a fair game, the US has declared it a threat and a challenge and initiated foul moves against it. The Americans are increasing their influence in the countries surrounding China. But like in Vietnam, they are bound to suffer a humiliating defeat again.

S.R.H. Hashmi, Karachi, Pakistan

(China Daily 03/01/2010 page9)