When I think about blogs the first thing that crossed my mind is "Julie and Julia." What a nice project Julie attempted! Very ambitious and all that food. That was way back in 2002 when blogs started taking off. Fast forward to 2010 I do understand more of the attraction of blogs. The subscription concept was novel, the ability to voice your opinions and say whatever you want to some potential audiences out there was and is empowering. Basically everyone and anyone could be columnists in a newspaper, or at least getting close to being that. The format of blogging is also very nonrestrictive. You can blog as long or as short, with or without images, and attach links of all kinds. The existence of aggregators make it possible to subscribe to all sorts of blogs out there. This way is like how we subscribe to newspaper and magazines, except they reach us through the internet.
So far so good. Blogs seem to be the new way to communicate globally. Then the new social networking sites begin to blossom around 2004. We have the professional ones like linkedIn, the college ones like facebook (which eventually repositions itself to be for the general public). These sites group people together, and everyone and I do mean everyone has a facebook page now. But it's not really like blogs where you can write an essay like pages to make your point. It's really more like very very short notes. Then around 2006 twitter, the micro microblogging site serviced. You can only say things in 140 words! We are becoming less and less "wordy." I guess attention deficit disorder is becoming rampant to say the least.
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I like the contrast you made between Facebook and blogging. I agree that the content is a little like Wikipedia. Where the content can be unreliable and it can be accessed by the global community. It seems we have all the information we want at our fingertips but we have to "take it with a grain of salt" as far as validity goes.
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