 When bloggers adjust their tone and privacy settings, they...
New Technologies and the Rise of Sharism Let’s track back to 1999, when there were only a few hundred pioneer bloggers around the world, and People made a quick and easy transition from reading blogs, to leaving comments and taking part in online conversations, and then to the sudden realization that they should become bloggers themselves. Bloggers generate lively and timely information on the Internet, and connect to each other with RSS, hyperlinks, comments, trackbacks and quotes. The small-scale granularity of the content can fill discrete gaps in experience and thus record a new human history. Bloggers are agile in adjusting their tone−and privacy settings−to advance ideas and stay out of trouble. As a result, such a Micro-pipeline system is making Social Media a true alternative to broadcast media.
 ...are smartly expressing themselves in a way to stay out of trouble.
 ...are expanding the blogosphere.  ...are self-censoring.  ...are keeping the social context of their posts in mind.  ...are smartly expressing themselves in a way to stay out of trouble.