Blog Ethics

Banda Aceh, Nov 29,2008
Kompas, November 23, 2008

Blog is one of telecommunication tools in illusion world that is well-known in this country. In the beginning, Blog is a daily writing that is posted to a site in internet where can be accessed by all of the people. Blog already known in 1998, but in Indonesia, the people who need Blog arise in 2004 and induce fast in 2007. We can know and see all of information in blog. Blog is not restricted by time and place. We can inform all of information in blog and every people can read it. But this freedom is usually used in wrong way by the blog writer, like inform to others about lie information. It is not ethic, because it can give bad effect to the people who read that information. So, to avoid this happened, society must select the information which they must read.

There are some criteria about the lie information. This information usually inform the dangerous information without the clearly reasons and ask the reader to inform that information to others. This lie information is may be occurred because there is no people who inform that information to the law officer. The writer thinks that is the responsibility of the reader to select the right information. So, the reader may not believe 100% to the information. It is the usual habit that the information in blog is unedited.

In fact, blog is like in the real world. There is ethic there. But the bloggers do not think about that because if there are restricts in blog, so there is no freedom there, it is an unpleasant thing. So, again and again, it will be the responsibility of reader to choose which the right information is that they can read. In the other side, there is a probability of information cheating from blog. Because information in blog can be read by all of people, so people may be cheat information from blog. There are some cases about this, like there is a book that its content is come from information in one blog. It can be a loss by the blog writer, because it does not follow ethic, copyright of writer has been infringed.

But, blog does not always give a bad effect. There are some advantages from blog. Blogger usually make a group to inform their experiences each others. They do not only talk each other, they also do some actions to other people, like held a conference, help poor people, and collect books to children. The books are gotten from other people who read the announcement in blog. So, the blog is also give benefits to society.