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Facebook Killed Your Blog
I wonder if celebrity bloggers are worried that social media will kill their blog.
I’m no celebrity, but I wonder what’s the use of posting pictures on here when flickr, twitter, facebook, etc. will probably get more response. The only positive I see is that at least here I can handle how I present things.
And as a tangent, this whole daily photo thing hasn’t worked out too well. ;)
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Pingback by Expression Costs | Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4 — May 16, 2009 @ 10:07 am
(Posted this response first to my own blog. Hope you don’t mind the link.)
We share blogs with the whole world. So our blogs get lost in the noise, bolstering the need for a whole industry optimizing getting found in search engines. Its a concerted effort just get noticed. That’s because blog readers have to seek out blogs to follow, subscribe to the feed, and follow. Finding the best blogs to read is sometimes difficult and more from word of mouth than anything search engines provide.
Blogs also tend to have a lot of information to digest. Social networks have just a line or two with maybe a link to more information. Blog readers typically are designed around the idea of collecting all the posts and letting the user pick which to read. Social networks typically are designed around the idea of just showing recent posts and letting the users choose how far back in time to read.
As technologies lower the costs to express ideas (aka get easier), blogs will get left behind as they have become upside down in value. The costs of writings, reading, subscribing, and commenting on blogs are more expensive compared to micro-blogging or status updates.
Why blog when hanging out on social networks are so much easier? Blogs can only survive as long as they have information worthy.
Why blog when readers are no longer reading? Posting blog entries on social networks does help keep traffic levels somewhat by getting exposure.
As bloggers providing valuable expression leave blogging, the value of blogs decrease. People will still blog. It just won’t be the popular thing to do.
Comment by ez — May 16, 2009 @ 10:26 am
Thanks Ez for the great response! I’m watching a lot of blogs die, and the majority of surviving ones seem to be the “celebrity” blogs that earn the owner money. It seems like there’s an artform being lost here.
I would feel better if facebook/twitter/flickr offered more personalization.
Comment by Sania — May 16, 2009 @ 11:47 am
Just be re-assured blogging won’t completely die. Some worried Americans would stop learning handwriting because typewriters then computers offered ever easier ways to capture information. Sure the amount of use dwindled, but people still choose to write some. Bloggers who remain will do it because they love the art form…. Not because its a popular thing to do.
:)
Comment by ez — May 17, 2009 @ 7:14 pm