According to the New York Times, there are rumblings in the social media world that blogging is a dying art. Micro-blogging on Twitter and status updates on Facebook and Google+ are ruling the day.
Blogs vs Newspapers
Will blog interest completely fade? Of course not. That’s like saying that people will stop consuming content. It’s not gonna happen, folks. People will always want more information and deeper insight than a Facebook status update can provide. Blogs will still have their uses.
Blogs are not dead, they’re changing. In case you haven’t noticed, the Internet and mobile technology is rapidly moving forward and it makes sense that popular activities come and go more quickly in a tech-dominated world.
The blogosphere is adapting and changing, even perhaps shrinking, but it’s not going to disappear anytime soon. Newspapers aren’t gone. They just have to adapt to the new reality that fewer people will be buying them to get their news. While most bloggers sit around wondering whether people are actually listening to them, others work on their blogs effectively and actually get the traffic they seek.
I understand that writers are too tired, getting bored, and annoyed at their lack of followers. That said, someone has to take charge or we’ll get into a situation where no one is providing intelligent news and news analysis. I how I’d hate to live in that world!
Millions of Bloggers
As long as someone has a voice, blogs will be part of the virtual landscape. To put it into perspective, there are still millions of hardcore bloggers worldwide, even if the numbers have declined.
So, you’re going to continue to read Pew Internet reports of how teens are reading fewer blogs and not starting up as many since they have Facebook to keep them happy, but there’s a lot more to it.
What do YOU think?
Please do share your views below.
Comments
Hi Brian,
Blogging is alive and kicking. Content gets syndicated to FB and Twitter. A story does not get told in 140 characters so the content needs to go somewhere. Obviously the smart ones are adapting and making their content available on mobile and optimise it for ipads etc.
Nik
It is impossible for blogging to be dead. Bloggers are just out there fueling up to conquer world of information technology. It is also one of the effective tools of information and as internet marketing tools by building up links.
Great article!
I love your post. Also i like your blog theme. It’s so good looking!
Blogging isn’t dead for sure, but if people continue to mindlessly write posts, then very soon readers will lose interest, ultimately leading to the demise of blogs.
Nice article and very informative. Thank you for the info.
Blogging is not dead its rather so that many topics and opinions are already writen. So most blogger have to share the visitors or ranking in google.
Who said blogging is dead. To say the fact blogging is really getting impressive way to grown. Blog vs newspaper is not a place to start the war here. Blog is entirely differ than newspapers.
Hi Brian I totally agree with you, some people say blogging is dying but as you say, people will not stop consuming content. I thing the issue these days is the sheer number of blogs, some of which just copy posts from other sources, but those that offer great and unique information are still going strong.
Hi Brian,
Like everything in life, blogging is evolving. Social media has such a strong presence right now that a lot of things are on the back burner. Like face to face conversations, long phone conversations, etc. things are just evolving!!!! Good article.
Great article! I think some blogging techniques might be dead but blogging is not dead.
Hi Brian,
I totally agree with you. If you share unique information in your blog content, that kind content won’t die.
The blog will not die but the newspaper will die. Blogs will be more fertile as the proliferation of news outlets. Blogs are more flexible, can be sandingkan with social media. Instead now social media users experiencing burnout because of the severity of promotional content, and the content is not excessively important.
I think there is an extreme amount of blogs out there with makes me hesitant to start any new ones, however if the current blogs i follow stay relevant I will stay an active follower.