Blogging Is Better Than FaceBook
I'm not going to tell you my age. That's none of your business. However, I can say that I'm old enough to have watched and experienced as well as been involved with the explosive growth of the Internet as an adult since the late 90's. The peak I think was when blogging was popular. The mid to late 2000's was really the sweet spot of blogging. Back then everybody's blog was their own independent, self-managed version of FaceBook.
But here we are today in 2020, dealing with COVID and pretty much the norm is FaceBook.. to many people FaceBook is the Internet in their eyes. Is just funny to me how people have regressed. Back when the Internet was starting to become popular with 14.4k, then 28.k, and then finally 56k dial-up connections there was a horrible but kinda cool service called AOL. They'd mail you a free 30 day trial install disc or you'd find them on display at checkout in grocery stores.
Point is this: AOL flooded the market with these free discs and grew very large. When people used the Internet they did so within AOL itself. AOL was in today's term called an App. It was designed to keep people inside and from leaving into the "outside world" which was called cyberspace or The Internet. Many people didn't understand the concept of having a web browser and then literally being able to type a web address into the address or search bar.
And that leads us to today. We're back at square-one. But instead of AOL being the service that traps you and keeps you housed within their network its another service called FaceBook. This is MY BLOG. Granted I need to obey Google's rules in order for me to have space here. But this entire blog is in my control of the web design, the categories, which content I decide to feature or advertise, etc.
Eventually, if I prove to myself that I'll keep this blog updated often I will reward myself with purchasing a domain name and most likely serve the website from a web server that I maintain at home. I did this successfully for many years when blogging and web publishing was popular. So I've been thinking about giving it another shot.
Anyway, the reason why blogging is better than FaceBook is because you're but in the driver seat with everything. Even more so if you get your own domain name and web server.
But here we are today in 2020, dealing with COVID and pretty much the norm is FaceBook.. to many people FaceBook is the Internet in their eyes. Is just funny to me how people have regressed. Back when the Internet was starting to become popular with 14.4k, then 28.k, and then finally 56k dial-up connections there was a horrible but kinda cool service called AOL. They'd mail you a free 30 day trial install disc or you'd find them on display at checkout in grocery stores.
Point is this: AOL flooded the market with these free discs and grew very large. When people used the Internet they did so within AOL itself. AOL was in today's term called an App. It was designed to keep people inside and from leaving into the "outside world" which was called cyberspace or The Internet. Many people didn't understand the concept of having a web browser and then literally being able to type a web address into the address or search bar.
And that leads us to today. We're back at square-one. But instead of AOL being the service that traps you and keeps you housed within their network its another service called FaceBook. This is MY BLOG. Granted I need to obey Google's rules in order for me to have space here. But this entire blog is in my control of the web design, the categories, which content I decide to feature or advertise, etc.
Eventually, if I prove to myself that I'll keep this blog updated often I will reward myself with purchasing a domain name and most likely serve the website from a web server that I maintain at home. I did this successfully for many years when blogging and web publishing was popular. So I've been thinking about giving it another shot.
Anyway, the reason why blogging is better than FaceBook is because you're but in the driver seat with everything. Even more so if you get your own domain name and web server.
posted by FlyKiller at 8:43 PM
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