Comments on: Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/10/15/are-twitter-and-facebook-killing-blogs/ Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:42:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt Watson : DragonDrop.org » http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/10/15/are-twitter-and-facebook-killing-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-41291 Matt Watson : DragonDrop.org » Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:53:56 +0000 http://www.softwarebyrob.com/?p=962#comment-41291 I was thinking the same though*. I googled "is facebook killing the blogosphere" and this came up #1. You beat me to it. Semi colon, close bracket. *Since 2003, my thoughts have <i>often</i> manifested in a blog post. The irony is that I'm now going to perpetuate your thought (and mine) by clicking retweet - which also posts it on my facebook wall. Full circle. I was thinking the same though*. I googled “is facebook killing the blogosphere” and this came up #1. You beat me to it. Semi colon, close bracket.

*Since 2003, my thoughts have often manifested in a blog post. The irony is that I’m now going to perpetuate your thought (and mine) by clicking retweet – which also posts it on my facebook wall. Full circle.

]]> By: Rosaura Ochoa – Social Media Blog » ¿Twitter y Facebook están matando a los blogs? http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/10/15/are-twitter-and-facebook-killing-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-35800 Rosaura Ochoa – Social Media Blog » ¿Twitter y Facebook están matando a los blogs? Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:20:20 +0000 http://www.softwarebyrob.com/?p=962#comment-35800 [...] abandonando sus blogs o publicando posts en ellos con menos frecuencia. Son muchos los blogs que hablan de la posibilidad, hoy me toca a mí hablar del [...] [...] abandonando sus blogs o publicando posts en ellos con menos frecuencia. Son muchos los blogs que hablan de la posibilidad, hoy me toca a mí hablar del [...]

]]> By: gobieta » ¿Twitter y Facebook están matando a los blogs? http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/10/15/are-twitter-and-facebook-killing-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-34713 gobieta » ¿Twitter y Facebook están matando a los blogs? Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:40:17 +0000 http://www.softwarebyrob.com/?p=962#comment-34713 [...] abandonando sus blogs o publicando posts en ellos con menos frecuencia. Son muchos los blogs que hablan de la posibilidad, hoy me toca a mí hablar del [...] [...] abandonando sus blogs o publicando posts en ellos con menos frecuencia. Son muchos los blogs que hablan de la posibilidad, hoy me toca a mí hablar del [...]

]]> By: John Evans http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/10/15/are-twitter-and-facebook-killing-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-28046 John Evans Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:26:13 +0000 http://www.softwarebyrob.com/?p=962#comment-28046 I have to agree with this as it is also killing business websites in general. Small businesses feel more and more that they don't need a website for their small business due to the exposure or "so-called exposure" of social media. I personally think if you depend on a fad than your business is no more than a fad as well or at least that is how you treat it. I feel you should leverage these tools but never abandon the personal ownership of a corporate or small business website but tie them all together. Anyways, got that off my chest! I have to agree with this as it is also killing business websites in general. Small businesses feel more and more that they don’t need a website for their small business due to the exposure or “so-called exposure” of social media. I personally think if you depend on a fad than your business is no more than a fad as well or at least that is how you treat it. I feel you should leverage these tools but never abandon the personal ownership of a corporate or small business website but tie them all together. Anyways, got that off my chest!

]]> By: Dave http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/10/15/are-twitter-and-facebook-killing-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-28043 Dave Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:46:58 +0000 http://www.softwarebyrob.com/?p=962#comment-28043 I think Twitter & Facebook are killing teen's social lives. Back when I was a kid (cue grumpy old man theme music), kids (OK, males) went outside & did sports or chased girls after school. They didn't run home to their computer to see how invites they have waiting. Interaction via computer is a lot less threatening for the socially inept. "On the internet, every male is Clark Gable", or something like that. Sorry, I went on a tangent there, but the curmudgeon in me had to go on a rant how we're raising a whole generation of milk-fed dweebs who can touch type at 70 WPM but they can't catch a baseball or kick a soccerball. I think Twitter & Facebook are killing teen’s social lives.

Back when I was a kid (cue grumpy old man theme music), kids (OK, males) went outside & did sports or chased girls after school. They didn’t run home to their computer to see how invites they have waiting.

Interaction via computer is a lot less threatening for the socially inept. “On the internet, every male is Clark Gable”, or something like that.

Sorry, I went on a tangent there, but the curmudgeon in me had to go on a rant how we’re raising a whole generation of milk-fed dweebs who can touch type at 70 WPM but they can’t catch a baseball or kick a soccerball.

]]> By: Sean Tierney http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/10/15/are-twitter-and-facebook-killing-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-28039 Sean Tierney Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:03:55 +0000 http://www.softwarebyrob.com/?p=962#comment-28039 Rob, couldn't agree with you more on this. There's also other aspects to consider which I think are important: 1. your blog is like your living resume. In fact when we job candidates I'm way more interested in seeing their blog than I am their resume because a resume can be faked. Twitter is just too sound bite-ish to get a deep window into what someone values and how he/she thinks and writes (while a blog gives you exactly that). 2. Twitter supplies enough of what you get via blogging where it ends up killing your blogging mojo. I wrote up this post last year when I felt this occurring to me: http://www.scrollinondubs.com/2009/01/11/twitter-stole-my-mojo/ The correction involved identifying what Twitter represented to me and consciously rethinking what my blog represented and focusing on #6 & #7 type activities to my blog. Just recognizing what was going on was enough to allow me deal with it. Anyways, spot on post as always Rob. Sean Rob,
couldn’t agree with you more on this. There’s also other aspects to consider which I think are important:

1. your blog is like your living resume. In fact when we job candidates I’m way more interested in seeing their blog than I am their resume because a resume can be faked. Twitter is just too sound bite-ish to get a deep window into what someone values and how he/she thinks and writes (while a blog gives you exactly that).

2. Twitter supplies enough of what you get via blogging where it ends up killing your blogging mojo. I wrote up this post last year when I felt this occurring to me:
http://www.scrollinondubs.com/2009/01/11/twitter-stole-my-mojo/
The correction involved identifying what Twitter represented to me and consciously rethinking what my blog represented and focusing on #6 & #7 type activities to my blog. Just recognizing what was going on was enough to allow me deal with it.

Anyways, spot on post as always Rob.

Sean

]]> By: Kalpesh http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/10/15/are-twitter-and-facebook-killing-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-27129 Kalpesh Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:55:05 +0000 http://www.softwarebyrob.com/?p=962#comment-27129 Twitter looks like people standing in a big hall & talking their mind. Some people listen to what they are interested in (one by one). It's like open shared IM conversation with everyone. And anyone can jump in on any topic. To me, it looks like a digital thought dumping ground. Imagine everyone would do that in past with the books? Imaging people writing their thoughts (the way people tweet) in a book? To some extent, it is the desire to be known. I mean, who cares, if I went to pee & closed my zip and opened the twitter to tweet about it :) Read blogs from MS people. When a product is released, almost everyone blogs about it. Now, imagine reader's situation if the same news is blogged about different people. Oh I wish, people do something useful. Twitter looks like people standing in a big hall & talking their mind. Some people listen to what they are interested in (one by one).

It’s like open shared IM conversation with everyone. And anyone can jump in on any topic.

To me, it looks like a digital thought dumping ground.
Imagine everyone would do that in past with the books? Imaging people writing their thoughts (the way people tweet) in a book?

To some extent, it is the desire to be known. I mean, who cares, if I went to pee & closed my zip and opened the twitter to tweet about it :)

Read blogs from MS people. When a product is released, almost everyone blogs about it. Now, imagine reader’s situation if the same news is blogged about different people.

Oh I wish, people do something useful.

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