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After reading Kline’s “I blog, Therefore I am” I found that I agreed with almost everything he was saying and found it pretty much interesting, but there was one thing I didn’t agree with.  The last paragraph in the last page of reading I did not agree with. It states, “What the world is coming to, of course, is what we were always taught it was supposed to be in the first place-a democratic society in which everyone has a voice and the change to get a hearing for his or her views. Not that every voice would be smart, or right, or even polite.  Not that every voice would be truthful or used for positive purposes. Just that we would all have a voice.  The only difference now is that everyone has finally gotten one.  And you can thank blogging for that” (Kline, p.251-252).  Kline argues that because of blogs everyone now has a voice, I completely disagree, I do not deny that I think blogs are a great thing, but not everyone uses them, nor does everyone need one to have a voice to speak up for themselves. I believe, like Kline that blogs do give some people a voice that they don’t normally have out in public, but I do disagree that because of blogs everyone who didn’t have a voice now has one and can speak up for themselves online. I can’t bring myself to agree with this paragraph at all because I think that if we were to say that blogs bring out the inner voice in people, then so does: AOL Instant Messenger, or email etc, not just blogs. This reading from Kline was a great and interesting read and the majority of it like I said before, I agree with completely, but the last line totally threw me off and made me question some things about the rest of the reading.