We pretty much knows that a lot of trends come and go. More so for technology. When Facebook started to gain popularity in Malaysia, that's when blogging began to dwindle. And now with Twitter alongside, I would say probably about 70% of the bloggers dropped blogging sites, while maybe 29% posted less. There's probably 1% who still blogs regularly, refusing to give the fort up.
A quick browse on all the blogs that I frequent shows that this is quite true. Most of them have already stopped blogging, a number of them have probably like an update every 1-2 months (I'm guilty of that too), and there are a select few (especially those who bought their own domain name) who still diligently keep their blog sites up to date.
In fact, I have not been checking on blogs much anymore now that I can get updates by the minute of my friends through Facebook (well not exactly by the minute as I can't access from work, but you get the idea). As for Twitter, I have yet to succumb to it for now, though more and more friends are asking me to join in. It has been said by some that Twitter would be a FB killer, though I think it's highly unlikely. From the way it looks, Twitter will probably blend in as part of the vital tools of social networking (for quick updates of status etc), while FB will still be the mammoth that offers everything from sharing of pictures, bulletin boards, events scheduling/invitation to games and so on.
I wonder what the future holds for social networking... we'll just have to wait and see.
5 comments:
Hello Will, how you doin'?
No wonder you MIA long time, ha ha, gone to Facebook?
I am sticking strictly to Blogs.
Will not go into Facebook or Twitter.
As well Facebook from what I read here has its dangers, Tweeter too.
But I guess one has to take the necessary security precautions.
And yes, lots of my old bloggers have gone MIA, to Facebook or Tweeter.
And 80% of my visitors are about a year old, ha ha.
But I feel really thrilled and happy you remembered me, Will. Thank you.
By the way, check out my 2 weeks ago posting, "because of a woman's heart, I returned".
Ruby Ahmad mentioned your good name.
Be seeing you, keep well, Lee.
Hi Will, its D/d 12/2/09, "because of a woman's heart I returned". Lee.
Due to my current lifestyle (and life), I blog. No Tweeting, no FB-ing. Dun want to let the whole World know too much about my secrets..........
lol!...i fell victim to the clutches of facebook for a while...but now i m back blogging again!
i realized there are just some things which you cannot say in fb ;)
uncle: yup... saw your post... sorry didn't visit your blog lately because was a bit busy..
cfc: haha that is quite true...
pinky: hahaha i know what you mean... indeed!
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