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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Blog fatigue?
Ran across an interesting story this morning from the Associated Press about some polling that suggests young people are starting to grow tired of a medium that they once actively, enthusiastically embraced: The blog.
Seems that other social networking media such as Facebook and Twitter, with their short and quick status updates, are taking the place of blogs in young folks’ affections and interest.
If this is true, I wonder if it’s all that surprising — not because flashy new things always fade with time, but because blogs are per se designed for writing, and because not that many people are writers. My guess is lots of people, old and young, tried blogging because it seemed cool, but that many of them didn’t really have the writerly itch and urge that makes somebody a real writer. Oh yeah, and talent.
A bit of selectivity in terms of content generation on the Web might be a good thing, and fewer blogs might actually not be such a bad thing — and please, withhold your comments about the world being a better place without this one, OK?
What do you think?
