Some of you -- like us -- have both a blog and a Facebook account. Some suggest the future blog will be on Facebook while others say Facebook is so much more for networking and interpersonal stuff and e-mailing that it will never replace the more content- or conversation-shaped blog. What do you think? What are the advantages of Facebook? Of a blog?
Is Facebook the Future Blog?
Thursday January 29, 2009
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I've got a lot of personal stuff on my Facebook; I use it to keep up with my family and friends and share info with them that I wouldn't necessarily want to share with anyone who might be reading my blog. I'm fine with promoting my blog to my friends via my FB, but I wouldn't ditch the blog.
I've wondered if this is a future trend. I pipe my blog into Facebook notes and have recently seen a surge in comments on Facebook. At the same time, for me they are slightly different audiences. My friends on Facebook are former students and old high school and seminary friends going through mid-life crisis with me. :-) My blog has more of a church and academic audience. So right now, Facebook is only extending my audience, not replacing it.
loaded question! depends on how you conceive of a blog. if it's content-driven (particularly original thoughts or reactions to other thoughts, events, etc.) then facebook doesn't hold a candle to the blog. facebook isn't for thinking or engaging in dialogue, much less disseminating well-developed ideas. it appeals to the ADD generation. for the rest of us, it's just a nice way to stay in the know on many people we really don't care all that much about (otherwise we'd invite them for coffee, give them a call, or at worst, write them an email).
Facebook is a nice feature for keeping up on friends and family, and maybe networking, but not for blogging. If you are looking to use blogging to update people on your life, and you want to control who can read those blogs, then facebook is the way to go.
But because of the design of facebook, not everyone can read your posts, so if you are looking to have a wider audience than just those you friend on facebook, then having a public blog is the better choice.
(side-note: interesting how facebook was once a site designed for networking, but now it is more just for family and friends to keep up on each other. food for thought)
As a reader of blogs and a new member to Facebook, I have to say that I much prefer blogs for devotional, academic reading. I suppose if someone were to put one Facebook that I wanted to read, I would go there, but just a few days after joining Facebook, the novelty of it wore off for me. That might be because the majority of my network are co-workers who use it to post personal info, pics and musings.
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