– you can share on google reader things that are possibly of little interest to anyone else?
– you can update your status on facebook for the world to know your moods and what you had for dinner last night and how bad the traffic this morning is?
– you can be a twit instead?
– you can be a twit and have that fact advertised on facebook simultaneously, having all your tweets appear on facebook too?
– you can provide links to interesting articles wherever possible?
So why blog?
you blog when you want to write…for yourself.
it’s something i really miss nowadays đ
i would agree with radhika – comments on google reader or on twitter are hit & run comments.
in fact it substitutes going to other people’s blogs and commenting – and becoming more asocial than one already is đ
last week i decided to break out of that – and go and visit old friends and their blog homes đ . that was preceded by me pruning my follow list. i ended up with a 1000+ unread feeds every 36 hours – too much to read đ
I agree with radhika too…. one has to blog for oneself and only then it comes out authentic and interesting.
beacuse there are so many updates on twitter that for people you really want to read (say 2 days after they posted), their updates are washed away in an ocean of tweets, and how much can you really convey in 140 letters ?
ok peoples, I agree – I was merely ranting – I ought to blog too regularly now. and shall. so there.