I’ve already vented here on the broader issues of the many social networking sites out there. And I had to laugh out loud when someone tweeted this week about how to solve the problem. In seriousness, the individual suggested you have two facebook pages (one personal, one professional), two twitter accounts, and who knows how many other plaxo or linked in sites.
I’ve also noticed that folks who’s blog I’ve followed of late are tweeting more frequently and blogging less. And I have to admit I’ve become one of them.
Blog posts take a lot of time and often are about formulating the background associated with one idea or concept. And when you HAVE to articulate it in 140 characters, you get good at summarizing and obviously you don’t worry much about eloquence (or do you do it even more?).
Bottom line — I’m finding myself tweeting all the best ideas/thoughts/discoveries in this pea brain of mine and lose all of my interest in writing a blog post.
I’m not finished, but I am going to let myself off the hook for the weekly posts I’ve committed to over the past couple of years (and anyone paying attention knows I’ve done a lousy job in the past few months anyway).
So join me on twitter (@larrydunivan) for regular stuff, and when something worthy of an in-depth discussion comes along, I’ll write about it here.
And of course, that’s all predicated on actually having something interesting to say — and in the world of social networking that is not trivial!
Just as you and many others are tweeting more and blogging less, I’m launching my own blog this summer. I’ve got a lot to say about quite a few topics that I’d like to write about without the contraints of being published elsewhere. Perhaps when I’ve said all I have to say, I’ll just declare victory and be done.