That is the question Bran is asking today, via Twitter. Long gone are the days when we communicated online using more than 140 characters. Call it Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Jaiku… our lives have become this series of short sentences updating our contacts on our whereabouts, activities and status.
Blogs have been around for what, probably 10 years? Mine has been around for 8. I have days when I don’t even look at it. In the past I felt guilty when days passed without an update. These days? Not so much. After all, I have Facebook and Twitter, which allows me to have almost-IRT contact. My question is, how insightful are social media sites? And how strong are the relationships we form with other people through them? Can you really tell how a person is doing from 5 posts on Twitter? Are we simply too busy to sit down and write about something in detail? Is the world moving so fast that we can’t say more than just a few words to people?
The death of blogging is not news. I remember reading an article about it not long ago, and if you do a quick search on Google, you will find quite a few. Maybe we got tired of of reading so much over the years, or maybe we just like the small-talk social media sites like Twitter provides us with.
Whatever the reason is, I need to post this on Twitter so people will know I wrote about it. ;-)
My blog isn’t dead, it’s just resting. LOL! I save my blog for my more verbose thoughts, when I have something substantive to say or a compelling story to tell. I don’t see twitter vs. blogs as an apples to oranges comparison. It’s like comparing books to movies or TV to radio. They are different mediums and not mutually exclusive. What I like best about twitter is that it’s like being in two places at once. Yes, I’m sitting at my desk in my cubicle at work. But at the same time I’m at a cocktail party, bantering with my friends.
God I hope they are not dead. Twitter, FB, blogs, they all have different niches to fill. Half the traffic I see on twitter is people pointing to their own )or their friends) blogs.
Besides twitter moves too fast for me to bother catching up on what everybody said while I was away. I can’t imagine how busy the feed is for people who fallow hundreds of other folk.