News Flash: Blogging is not dead.
We knew that already, didn’t we? Blogging is for when we have more to say than what will fit in Twitter’s 140 character limit. Blogging also gives you more of a feeling of “home”. This is my place; I can decorate it however I like and make my own rules and ignore those rules when I feel like it. Twitter is more like people hanging out together in a public place. I “tweet” sometimes too. I like the little conversations and seeing what other people have to say. Just because something new comes along doesn’t necessarily mean the old thing has to die. We didn’t throw out the radio when we got the TV; we just started using it differently.
July 20th, 2010 - 9:16 am
Twitter is like a loud, popular club where a thousand conversations are going on at once and you’re lucky you can pick a phrase out of the din. I didn’t know how people could “socialize” at clubs, and I don’t know how people can use Twitter to have any kind of conversation. (I’ve tried. It was kind of fail.) It’s useful to me for putting up links to my posts, which I can do with autopost plugins. So my Twitter site is the equivalence I guess of the billboard over the diner counter where people put up their business cards and announcements. In other words, mostly ignored but every once in a while someone reads the billboard and picks up my card.
July 24th, 2010 - 11:31 pm
I’ll start using Twitter & Facebook when they start letting me edit posted items instead of just choosing between leaving embarrassing typos up and deleting the whole damn post.