blogs vs facebook vs twitter vs me
I love blogging. Well, I should say I love reading my families blogs and keeping in touch. Not to be confused with the rest of the "blogosphere" which I'm not as keen on.
Facebook is useful, but I find my news feed is most busy with people I don't care to read about, as least not that often. I find I check it less because it doesn't provide enough value to time spent.
I don't twitter, but Lisa does now and it is nice to keep up that way. Although I find it tough to reply back when not near IM. And even then it is only one on one.
What does all this have in common? I'd like to write more, but none of the above seem right. My blog posts, if you haven't noticed, are a bit involved. I think that is the advantage of blogs. I can muse and mutter and you can read and comment. Most of my updates like "Hadley just had a mousie (mousey? mousee?) sandwich and loved it", I have no outlet for.
I _know_ that is what twitter is for, but really want to enable comments that everyone can read. I _know_ I could make short blog posts, but, eh, it doesn't _feel_ right.
Maybe I should mash a tweet blog that has auto facebook posts. ick. Better than having another place for people to read about me though.
I'm interested in your thoughts on the topic, if anyone still reads this.
Comments
If youre on Windows, I highly recommend Digsby, as it unifies basically every IM platform. Even Facebook. Linux and OSX are coming soon.
Brian, IMO you should stick with the blog. I say that it's my opinion because personally I like to have the control and ownership of my content. While I upload photos and import my site into Facebook, the original content is on my machines and not on someone else's.
It may seem a little paranoid, and for microblogging a little unecessary, but 10,20,30 years from now I don't know where Facebook, Twitter, or any other service will be.
True about content - Blogs posts that are one sentence long are just fine, and you own the content.
I like the mix of both I have going now.
I know there is a form of conversations on twitter amongst twitterers, but signing up to twitter or using an app seems to be a high barrier to entry. I'll bet mom comments on your blog but doesn't participate in a twitter thread with you.
everyone seems to like short blogs though. hmmm.