Well, the beauty of the internet is diversity. Surely you don’t expect ‘personal blogs’ to be serious blogs. It is after all a blog and you can talk about anything you want.

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Just give them some time to prepare. I think the Philippine Blogosphere is still relatively young, and the late-bloomers are yet to discover the capabilities of Friendsterizing on their blogs.

I believe that those who have access to the Internet and the great things it offer — such as blogging — are more likely to get involved in sociopolitical issues because they have access to the entire Web of information that could empower them. The RockEd guys could be an example. Many of their followers don’t seem the type of people you’d see in Mendiola protests, but they get involved in ways they are comfortable with.

I think our Internet experience also follows some sort of an evolution. In my case, for example, I started my online life with search and chat (IRC pa noon) and web authoring. I later got into forum discussion and blogging. It is in the forums and blogging phrase that I got to discuss with my cyberfriends the political stuff that I learned both online and offline.

Many of the young people now start their online life with role-playing games and YouTube (saka siguro porn — kaya it begins with sex, hehe). Then they probably get introduced to Friendster and other social networks. Later on, they discover forums and blogging.

When they start blogging, their first entries are about school, family and friends. Tapos, entertainment or siguro sorts. As they read more sites and blogs, discover more things and learn about the government and society, mag-iiba rin yan. At first, mahihiya pa silang mag-post. Maybe when write about such things, napaka-status quo and even echoing the government propaganda. Pero at least, nag-start na silang makisali.

There more established and popular bloggers (gaya mo) have the chance to influence the newbies and introduce them to other aspects of life — things beyond personal, beyond financial. They are the ones who could welcome the newbies in the realm of ideas and politics.

Another thing, the Pinoy Blogosphere has made its mark especially in a country that’s craving for what is different ─ indie movies, underground music and blogs. Hopefully, those “unearthed” bloggers will make the mark.

Your statement on Most people are still elitist and standoffish when it comes to socio-political issues. is not exactly accurate. How can you say these people are elitist? is that your observation?