Apparently, microblogging is getting more and more popular these days. As far as I can tell, the theory behind it is that people are busy, they don’t have time to sit down and write a long blog post. In a way, that makes sense. On the other hand, who says you need to blog ten times a day? A while back I read about some people doing ‘slow blogging’ – quality blogging, not quanity. That too, makes sense.
Being the sad, lonely misfit that I am, I don’t have that much to say, when it comes to ‘what are you doing?’. If I were to really microblog, it would be mainly things like ‘I’m sitting here at the computer’ ‘Just got back from a walk’, ‘Had dinner. It was delicious’. Boring. Pathetic.
That reminds me of an even newer thing – nanoblogging. One word at a time. Brilliant? Trendy? Cool? Poetic? Maybe, but pretentious and snobbish are words that spring to mind. Meaningless too. In my book. But maybe it’s something you get used to.
All this hasn’t stopped me from getting no fewer than five (I think) microblogs (not nanoblogs) and I’m doing my best to keep up. At least I will, as long as it feels fun.
What do you think? Should I give nanoblogging a chance too? Here is a nanoblog site (I haven’t tried it, but I found it when I did a Dogpile search.)