Six (or, the rise of Microblogging)
Six. That’s how many times I’ve posted updates to this site in the last year. That’s an average of one post every two months (8-and-a-half weeks!) I update my Facebook feed about 10x more frequently. And why? Because it’s easier. Because no one really subscribes to blogs anymore. But mostly because after eight years of random musings about my life, I’ve realized that my site has become obsolete. Why struggle to come up with something worthwhile to say on your blog when you can tweet your thoughts in 160 characters or less?
I haven’t given up on my site completely, but I have installed a Wordpress plugin called StatusPress that pulls my most recent status updates from Facebook and posts them in the sidebar to the right. With all the updates Facebook has been making to their site lately there’s a chance the plugin might break in the near future but for now you can see all of my updates in one place (except for photos I upload to Facebook; that’s a whole ‘nother issue I need to tackle…).