Many advances over the past years have experienced tipping points, and it makes sense, any new and exciting idea or object peaks the interest of even the most passive of some people.  Blogging is one “advancement”, if you decide to refer to it as that, that has indeed reached it’s tipping point.

For years we’ve had the ability to post our thoughts on some sort of website, in fact I had my own short stint on my free Yahoo website in middleschool.  As more and more people realized they could make a difference, or at least think that they will make a difference some where out there, and that their thoughts and words will be important to people, blogging spread like wildfire with the thanks to blogging web sites.

I deem this year, 2008, the tipping point of blogging.  Never in the past 3 years was blogging incorporated into my academic setting.  Sure, every now and then we would read a post a professor had printed out related to class work, but this semester it is to my understanding that a majority of students I speak with have to blog for multiple classes.  I mean what happened to good old in class discussions?  Blogging has become such a large influence on today’s communication there are those who believe so strongly in it that they are essentially forcing hundreds of people, by assignment, to blog against there will.  Now is the tipping point because there are so many, in fact I would say at this point all of those individuals who wanted to blog are currently blogging, and there are as I mentioned hundreds upon hundreds who never would that are.  When it has become so prominent and seemingly “important” to blog that there are hoards of people who have no desire to blog blogging, how uch more can it grow?  I feel that it can’t get much larger in terms of numbers, but instead sustain its numbers for awhile and eventually taper off a little, when all of those people out there get tired of trying to be recognized among hundreds of thousands of people’s great ideas, or no longer are given such assignments.

I’m not trying to say blogging is a bad thing, and I’m not saying that people aren’t recognized for their brilliant blogging. I just really wish there was a way to weed out all the self important B.S. bloggers.  (Sorry to be a negative Nancy)