Google. The Real Skynet?

Google has taken over the online world, but so under the radar that we never considered just how much they've taken over. Most people can't go a day without using some product of the Google brand. Google, YouTube, Blogger (for goodness sake!) are all under the umbrella of the Google corporation.

When the makers of the Terminator series wrote all of those movies about Skynet and computers taking over the world, they might not have thought about how close to that future we've come. Yes, most of that technology is far off in the future, and yes, time travel is impossible, but the possibility of a company like Google taking over isn't that far-fetched of an idea. This is mainly because they already kind of are.

The Google umbrella reaches far and wide. There aren't many things that Google doesn't do. I, myself, use Google docs to write all of my papers, make searches through Google, am constantly on YouTube, and sort of ironically write my blogs using a Google-owned site (aka Blogger, aka this site right here).

Blogception

Blogging has been a past time for a while now. Quite a lot of people blog because it is such an open and free way to spread your thoughts and ideas. It's opinion-based, for the most part, so anyone can post about almost anything that they want. Some people use blogs as a means of storing things that they want to look at later, while others use blogs to talk about their political, social, and economical views.

In an series of interviews by blogger Rebecca Blood titled "Bloggers on Blogging," she interviews other bloggers about why they blog and how.

Megan Reardon is one of the many bloggers interviewed by Blood. Reardon started her blog as a means to be able to remember links and posts that she wanted to be able to get back to later. She says it hasn't changed much from that over the years, even though she has a decently sized viewership. It's very interesting that she continues to maintain the blog in such a fashion; she doesn't feel pressured by the amount of viewers she has to post more often or have her posts be more consistent.

As the keeper of my own blogs, I find that I have also taken on this idea of maintaining the blogs in the way that I originally intended them for.