How do you write? Do you write for your audience or for yourself?  How should online writers write?

Many online writers plainly disregard the important role they play in terms of the kind of information that they present to their readers. What they write can influence people; their way of life, their relationships, and even people’s power to earn. That is, if the writer cares for his/her audience.

People using the internet are in search of useful information that they need in their daily lives. Information which are reliable, factual, or accurate. This is the reason why writers should pay attention to what they write.

But do online writers write with these things in mind? The answer may be yes for some while for others it is obviously no. Why? This is because many writers post irrelevant stuff. Just to attract attention, many online writers post misleading titles that do not deliver what those titles say. Some even resort to automatic rearrangers of previously published articles. The outcome: garbled articles which do not make sense at all.

Sensible online writers should write with utmost care because whatever information they provide will have lasting effects. Whatever erroneous information provided in an article will have reverberating consequences. As people relate with their peers whatever nuggets of information they learned from the internet, they are unknowingly multiplying the information as this would be relayed to someone else. This is the so-called “Wildfire Effect.”

Writing is a powerful tool that can change lives. Online writing is an even more powerful tool that can change thousands or even millions of lives because of its high potential to spread information through the internet. While many writing sites like TheInfomine allows writers to post their articles immediately for people to read, each writer should take it upon themselves that whatever they post in the internet should be something that are worth the while of their readers.

Writing with focus on quality is good; writing with focus on quantity, hmm… could be bad; writing with focus on quality plus quantity is best. I just wish I have more time to write more.