Blog vs. Microblog
As you might have noticed that I haven’t wrote anything for quite awhile (well, if there is anyone check out my blog). It’s because I’ve been busy lately. But seriously, I had LOTS of things I wanted to write. And most of them ended up on my tweets as scattered thoughts. I start to think that microblogs like Twitter, Facebook, or any other social networks can really ruin your creativity because they don’t need much considerations or refinements before you post them. They come out of your brain as small pieces of thoughts and ideas and go right into the giant stream of information on the internet. Those pieces of thoughts leave your mind and you’re unlikely to get them back, or you’re unlikely to even want to get them back. It’s just like chatting with your friends in the cafeteria, you don’t care much what you talked about at lunch. I think microblogging is getting to that point, because you can do it any where right from your mobile phones.
In contrast, when you write a blog entry, you think – and think hard because blogging is more like writing a book (at least to me, but maybe I take it too seriously). Your blog entries will be there every time you access your blog. So you want to give it some thinking about what to put on your blog, which word to use, spacing, format, blah blah blah, while you hardly think about that when you tweet (ok, maybe you do think about words because of amount of letters limit).
But then again, not all people are like that. Some people I know take their tweets (or microblogs) quite seriously as well. They tell stories, jokes, or other things worth being in blogs. But to my experiences, there’re not quite a lot of those people.
I just want to say that microblogging sometimes can be really disruptive. And maybe we all should take a little break from it and do some ‘real’ stuff like write a stupid blog entry like this one (oh yes, I do think this entry is kinda silly!)
Cheers.
