It's a conversation, stupid

Have you ever wanted to post your own thoughts on a top news website and make yourself the composer of a story? Well now it's right at your fingertips. Websites are now making it possible for the audience to become the contributors. But is user-contributed content accurate and steady enough for mainstream media?

I think that user-contributed content is a very good idea, as long as it's kept at a minimum. After all, the users are the ones who keep the news afloat. If it weren't for the people that visit news websites and give feedback on stories, would we have anything to report?

Contributing our thoughts through news is a way of communicating with other people. By sharing through the web, people who want to read your response are capable of doing so. Not only would you care about the things you write about, but so will the people reading your point of view. People will be more liking to search for things that mean the most to them, and if it's people who are most like them, then they want to read what you have to say.

In the future, I think people will be able to get there ideas out there more than ever. The web is constantly changing and updating to make it easier for us to communicate. But I do think websites should control who gets to publish things there because lets face it, there are some ignorant people out there.

For people who don't think that online news is conversational, I think they just need to think more about it. It contains information that is of interest to a lot of people, it includes different insights, thoughts, ideas and personal experiences; all the things you do face to face. It may not be direct, but it's a conversation, stupid.