On wednesday of this week, it was Blog Action Day 2008. The whole point of this event was to raise awareness of poverty through blogging about it. It was estimated that the message reached 13,498,532 people through 12,836 blogs. That's a massive amount of people that would have read about poverty, assuming the website didn't exaggerate. But is this a good use of everybody's time? I'll probably spend 15-20 minutes writing this blog post, and I I'm assuming that the 12,836 bloggers spend approximately the same time writing their average blog post. The time that all the bloggers spent comes out to approximately 150 days of time. Couldn't more to be done in a 150 days than just creating blog posts? A person could go to volunteer their time in Africa, or in any place with a large poor population. 150 days of a person working at a minimum wage job comes out to 26,100 dollars. Wouldn't that do more good donated to a good cause than spent sitting in front of the computer? I guess it kind of depends on what the readers of the blogs are gonna do. Because me, I'm already aware of poverty. You've got to be kind of dense not to be. You see it on the news everyday, you see beggars in the street, etc, etc. So what is all this time spent blogging accomplice? Hopefully some of the readers of these blogs will donate some of their time and money to helping the cause. But we can't really see this, can we? We've got to be more content with knowing that maybe this is helping someone. Though the numbers that I mentioned at the beginning of this post are impressive, you've really got to ask yourself, what are these numbers doing?
1 comments:
You have a good point but I think these blog posts can help readers to really understand poverty more and possibly even get an inspiration to arouse within them to help.
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