Loading ...As more and more hype builds around Facebook and Twitter, where do blogs fit in? This is an interesting debate and one that many people feel strongly about, including Emily Gordon of Emdashes. She compares Facebook and Twitter to a continuous snowstorm but says the snow will melt eventually.
Gordon goes on to say that sites like Facebook and Twitter provide an Internet experience that bombards users with information and data. She says this experience is very similar to consumers watching TV. With the Internet however, users can watch and create their own content, which allows them to impact the medium.
Gordon believes blogging is really the only format for saving and storing this type of content. As she tells WebProNews, “[With blogs] you’re kind of keeping that snow on the ground… you’re keeping things visible, you’re keeping them findable, you’re keeping them searchable, and you’re keeping them archival.”
In regards to the future of blogs, Gordon believes it is bright. As Facebook and Twitter continue to get more public, she says blogs will be a place where people have smaller communities. Although Twitter fulfills many user needs since it allows users to publish quick thoughts and ideas, Gordon points out that blogs also fulfill the needs users have to catalog, collect, reflect, and critique.
What are your thoughts on this debate?
Although Facebook and twitter are a good extension of social interaction on the web, they cannot replace blogs.There is just too much noise in there and lots of distraction. Of course if you want to play online video games, be my guest. Or if you want everybody to know what you are doing right now no matter how irrelevant that is to your followers, then you have a whole stage on Twitter.
Facebook and Twitter are socializing tools. Blogging is a personal publishing tool. Comparing the two like they are competing services is stupid. It’s like apples and oranges.
Hi,
Twittering and facebooking are social activities, while blogging, besides social is also a cultural activity.
José
I believe blogs are here to stay!
I would much rather take the time to read a blog than senseless bits of dribble on Twitter or who needs 3 carrots for Farmville on Facebook.
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I do believe blogs are here to stay…..
This is just my opinion, but I think I can safely say that it is based on experience, if not fact: blogs are here for the “long haul.” While Facebook and Twitter will always have their place and function, both can be instrumental in driving traffic to a blog.
Once you have learned how to monetize a blog as pointed out by Carolee, you can then expand on the blogging experience. A great example to look at is Robert Ringer’s site: it’s set up with the blog, a place to comment, and has running ads in sidebars.
Myself, I prefer to include a link to the PDF article at the end of each blog post in case anybody wants to print it off and read it offline, or bind it in a book for reference. PDF’s are a great way to distribute information and you can read them online with clickable links.
Facebook fan pages are the way to go if you’re going to use Facebook in any medium. Once you have your FB fan page put together and get at least 25 members, then you can get a vanity URL for it. Either way, a FB fan page gets each posting indexed into the search engines, whereas a regular profile does not.
Twitter, also, gets tracked by the search engine, so “micro-blogging” has its place in the equation. I personally think both (or rather, all three) can compliment one another if you have them hooked together with the Facebook API’s.
Just my “take” on it.
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With the Internet however, users can watch and create their own content, which allows them to impact the medium.
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