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Better Blogs, thanks to Twitter and Facebook?
October 1, 2008 |
Blogs come in many avatars. And, for someone following people’s writings through blogs, sifting through the various types of content can be quite exhausting. But, thanks to new social utilities like Twitter and Facebook, I guess we are witnessing a culling in the blogsphere. I guess this is a good trend too. This way, Blogs would remain as focused and ‘information rich’ mediums, while other forms of information sharing moves to newer niche services.
People wanting to update what they are up to are switching to Twitter, and people who are trying to keep in contact with their acquaintances, share photos, talk about life etc, are doing so using Facebook.
Furthermore, the new Facebook has crossed over in to the Twitter space, with it’s ‘what are you doing now?’ feature, where people are litterally ‘twittering’ within a closed group of acquaintances. And to top it all, since services like Facebook only allow access to ‘friends’ we see more personal and detailed updates being shared with each other.
All in all, it’s nice to be witnessing a natural process of sorting of information dissemination happening on the Web, and I guess this is good.
