Advantages and Disadvantages of a Blog

Advantages of a Blog

1.     Networking with various people worldwide. One of the most important benefits of blogging is its feature that helps us to network with a wide range of bloggers from different walks of life across the globe.

2.     Blogs helps you to improve your writing skills. If you start to write a blog, all of sudden you get into the habit of improving your writing skills and style.

3.     Mastering a subject is another advantage of having a blog that is its ability to make you a master in a chosen subject.

4.     Flexibility of working hours. If you are engaged in blogging as a work-at-home job, the flexibility of working hours makes it suitable for you to find out time for other day to day activities.

5.     Your photography skill may improve. Once anyone becomes a blogger, he or she may start having interest in several other things related to blogging to improve their own blog. One may develop interest in photography in order to take good pictures for your blog.

6.     Your presentation skill may improve. When you make video tutorials for your blog, you may try to make sure that you are presenting the video with good language that is clear and understandable. This may definitely lead you to take that extra step to improve your presentation skills.

7.     Blogging as a source of income. Most people start blogging just for expressing their personal opinions, latter on some begin to take an interest on searching for various sways by which they can earn income from it.

8.     Blogs promote large scale businesses. All large scale businesses have their own blog along with their websites. They update every detail of their products or services using their blog.

9.     Blog makes it easy to connect with social media. Most of the blogging tools help us to easily share the content in the blog with social media sites like facebook, twitter, linkedIn, pinterest.

10.                        Your video-graph skills may improve; your video skills will get enhanced once you start blogging. Video tutorial is a must for many of the blogs especially the technical ones where you may need to teach some ideas to an audience.

Disadvantages of a Blog

1.     Whatever you publish is available for everyone to see. If you write a post in anger you might regret it later.

2.     Personal blogs may be biased or contain inaccurate information.

3.     Blogs can be time consuming. Finding time to write regular updates can become a chore.

4.     People may leave rude inappropriate comments

5.     There are many very dull blogs around. You may have to look at many before you find something worth reading. A poorly written bog, rushed together with poorly written low quality posts full of typos and spelling errors could be doing more harm than good.