Here’s a point of view that seems to be coming from a different perspective compared with much of what is written within that which is sometimes referred to as the “technorati blogosphere”. And just because of that, I think it’s worth taking notice. Stuart Dredge writes about Facebook and blogging:
Tech Digest: Opinion: Facebook is killing personal blogging
When it launched, Vox was all about getting your mum and less tech-savvy friends to blog without needing a certificate in geekery. It’s a great, well-designed, easy-to-use service. Yet my friends and family aren’t on Vox; they’re on Facebook. One of my aunts is on Facebook. They don’t want to blog, but they do want to be part of a social network that lets them communicate in bite-sized chunks of text or media.And that’s the problem for blogging companies. People who’ve blogged in the past won’t necessarily dump LiveJournal or Blogger. But all those millions of new people who were supposed to take personal blogging into the mainstream? I don’t think that growth is going to happen.
Interesting?
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Hum, wonder if Blog Friends (link requires you to be logged into facebook) could help foster at least a few new bloggers..? : )
I think anyone who thinks ‘blogging is dead’ has a very narrow definition of blogging.
Facebook has blogging in a sense (with notes). Twitter is basically Micro-blogging. Etc., etc., etc…
@Luke – I’ve always tried to explain that the frst step to blogging is reading other blogs via subscription so that they might be experienced as stories that unfold over a period of time. As such, Facebookers that use the Blog Friends app as a feed reader could well be on the path.
@Rachel – to be fair, the original article was talking only about “personal blogging” and you’re quite right about micro-blogging being adopted as a sort of lite option by masses. Facebook status updates could be synchronised with Twitter to form a published blog of tweets+statuses
So the chronological aspect is there, and so is a fair amount of reflective writing sometimes – even within 146 characters!