The Fall of Blogging The Rise of Other Social Media

November is NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). Bloggers officially sign up and agree to post everyday in November. I'm not participating though I do appear to be on a roll this month. I did NaBloPoMo in 2007.

I started my blog July 2006. It seems 2006 and early 2007 was the heyday for blogging. So many bloggers have since gone. Some made an annoucement they were ending their blog. A few just vanished - the blog could no longer be viewed. Most just quit updating. I've heard various reasons why people stopped blogging:

• too time consuming


• ran out of ideas


• felt too much personal information was shared (especially after a few had some nasty stalkers)


• thrill wore off


• began other forms of social media: facebook and twitter
  

I can understand and have experienced all these reasons. Also, I am on facebook and twitter. Though some of my friends overlap, I look at blogging, facebook, and twitter as 3 separate outlets.

Blog posts are more detailed. I think of them as my journal. I like to put up the pictures I take. Most of my friends in my area do not know I blog. However now I do consider many of my fellow bloggers as friends. I've met several of you.

Facebook is a way for me to reconnect and communicate with my friends - the majority are local. I share the most about my family on this site. I do not have a link to my blog on Facebook nor do I mention it. I use to consider myself a 'secret blogger'. Honestly now I don't think I'd care if my secret was out.

With Twitter, I can vent. I can have brief banter with others. I can visit Twitter when I have the time or stay away for a while.

What forms of social media do you rely on? How do you use them differently?