Insights About Morals, Ethics and Laws in Blogging

Blogging as they say is an influencers, Several influencers are the famous and those who have extra ordinary ideas.The bloggers have the power to influence, power to make business,power to break business, power to recommend and power to inform, hence we are now in the age of information.These powers are beyond normal because they built their online reputation to become an authority in their chosen niche.Bloggers has the power to conduct business on line visibility.Also,they have the power to break business because they can share their unpleasant experience and disgust.

Speaking about ethics in blogging,they say “think twice before you click”, this is true because we are responsible for what we post,with those powers come great responsibility, so being a part of the online world we need discipline and we should not abuse the new technology.Hence we area part of the social media ,we also have a social responsibility,so we must see to it that what we post must be fair to others.

Morals are one’s personal beliefs about right or wrong.We must know then if what we post can hurt the feelings of others or not.Ethics is the standard or code of behavior expected of an individual by a group to which an individual belongs.

While there is no Cyber crime law at this time we must use our conscience and don’t post photos and derogatory comments that will hurt others.Let us go back the basic:Do not do unto others what others do unto you.