User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-131756-20110928145346/@comment-1025281-20110928145555

"Some years ago now, the online world shifted onto a new paradigm. Websites would no longer merely offer information and present it like the computer equivalent of books in a library. They would instead become a two-way avenue, a fusion of information and interaction. With the rise of the blogging phenomenon and such websites as MySpace and later Facebook, easy-to-use methods of rapidly posting opinions became a necessity. The basic engine of "commenting" as we know it now exists on practically every site that allows viewer opinion, including highly respected news websites, widely read and brilliantly written blogs and other guides and resources.

"The meaning of this is simple — "commenting" is not just restricted to social networks. It is the general standard for all two-way publicly viewable communication on the web."