In today’s society it is become normal to share a lot of information with complete strangers. Through blogging many young girls share almost their entire life. They are writing about them selves, their friend, their family, they post pictures and movies. And it’s a phenomenon that has become very popular among people. Norway’s most popular blog is written by a 14 year young girl and on February 2. 2010 she had over 166 000 viewers. I wonder why we have become so interested in reading about other peoples lives. And why people are interested in sharing their lives with complete strangers. A dynamic could be the money, but I don’t think that is the main reason why people blog. I think it is a need of attention.It’s not only in blog’s private information is shared. Facebook is a internet community that has become very popular the last years. In facebook it is normal to have a lot of friend, and most of the facebook-friends is just people you know of, but you don’t say hi when you meet them in the store. In facebook you can read a lot about your facebook-friends. Things that you normally wouldn’t tell to everybody, that could be things like; who’s in a relationship, who’s single, who’s having a “complicated” relationship, what people are doing, what they are going to do, pictures of them selves, pictures of their kids and a lot more. Do we really want half-strangers to see pictures of our children, or know if we are having a complicated relationship? But we do like reading about others, if not, facebook wouldn’t have existed.
