15th
As Joey Alarilla put it, what is your blog’s purpose? Are we out to change the world? Are we out to change the level of discussion? Are we simply out to have fun?
I suppose we each blog for our own reasons. Sometimes, we do take ourselves too seriously. Sometimes, to blog is simply to escape.
At the end of it, I think it doesn’t matter if the blog post was contrarian. Social media is about the conversation. It is about that willingness to be swayed by a comment and that realization that one was wrong. It is about being able to hear, read, or watch something and realize how one’s worldview or one’s opinion about something is entirely wrong. It is about learning as much as it is communicating. In short, it is about the conversation.
I too understand that Social Media and its subset, blogging, is not limited to commentaries and opinion. Social media is about finding the balance of curation. It is about curating science and technology. It is about the truth and beauty and glamour of fashion. It is about discovering health and wellness. It is about the fun of sports. It is about the escape of entertainment, the critics, and pop. It is about the depth and multitude of culture. It is about communication. It can simply be about the joy of simple pleasure. Social media is about all the things that make us Human, and all the things that make us uniquely Filipino. In this digital tomorrow, whether in playfulness or seriousness, social media is a vector where the Soul of the Filipino could find utterance.
