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…which is the slang-speak we use here, at The Blog That Nobody Reads (anyway), for — you guessed it — FaceBook! And yes, keen-eyed observers have noticed that although we are indeed on it, we really don’t spend much time there and we take it a little bit less than completely seriously.
As a blog, we go back to 2004, the year of Facebook’s origin…way before it emerged as any kind of a phenom. It’s just hard for us to see it as a serious player.
Melissa has a study in hand and it’s a little mind-blowing, although the contents therein are not altogether unexpected.
Young women are becoming more and more dependent on social media and checking on their social networks, according to a new study released earlier today by Oxygen Media and Lightspeed Research. In fact, as many as one-third of women aged 18-34 check Facebook when they first wake up, even before they get to the bathroom. [emphasis mine]
That’s a little bit excessive. Me, I power on the mini-notebook on my way into the bathroom, and when I come back out again I check my e-mail…then find out what’s going on in the world. Then maybe blog something while the coffee’s brewing.
See, that’s sensible. Blogging is a more manual process. And it doesn’t really revolve around feedback. Facebook is a cocktail party, blogging is more like a billboard.
Hey, while we’re discussing differences between blogging and FaceBook, let’s dig into my “Beat Up On FaceBook” file. It’s fun to make fun of FaceBook.
1. FaceBook is a blog you wind up with a little key
2. FaceBook is a blog printed up with pleasing primary and pastel colors
3. FaceBook is a blog that, when you drop it in the bathtub, it floats
4. Blog is to CAD program as FaceBook is to an Etch-a-Sketch
5. If FaceBook was a movie, it would be a guilty-pleasure flick…like “Joe vs. the Volcano” or “Road House”
6. FaceBook is a blog you can gnaw on to help your teeth come out
7. Forget my earlier snarky comment about an automatic transmission; you have to pedal FaceBook with your feet to make it go
8. FaceBook reminds me of that crocodile in the comic strip who can’t kill the zebra living next door and his parents get all ashamed of him when he orders out for cardboard tubs of fried chicken
9. FaceBook is a blog that says one of five things when you pull on its li’l cord
10. FaceBook is a blog you push along on the ground while making an engine sound with your lips
11. Facebook is the Jar Jar Binks of blogging, with much better public relations
12. Facebook is a blog carrying a little tiny dog around in a purse
13. “Blogger” uses a bottle opener; WordPress twists the cap off with its bare hand; FaceBook punches a little hole in the box with the straw that was taped on to the side
14. If “House of Eratosthenes” resided primarily on FaceBook, it would be made out of Lincoln Logs
15. FaceBook is the “Twilight Series” of blogs
16. FaceBook is a blog that comes with crayons and a puzzle
17. If FaceBook was really a book, it would be something by Dr. Seuss
18. If FaceBook was an entree, it would be a grilled cheese sandwich that your momma could’ve made you at home
19. Blogging can be crackers, beer nuts or cashews; FaceBook is Teddy Grahams and, sometimes, Cheerios in a little sandwich baggie
20. When FaceBook writes its own name, it wishes it ended with the letter “i” so it could dot it with a little heart
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Humorous, to be sure
But … comparing facebook to blogging is like comparing letters (the kind we wrote before email) to books. Or at least pamphlets.
They serve different purposes.
- philmon | 07/16/2010 @ 21:13Yes they do.
FB is for party invitations. Anything one-directioonal – get the word out – be here, at this time, on this date.
As a discussion forum it fails big-time.
- mkfreeberg | 07/17/2010 @ 06:19[…] call Facebook the “Hello Kitty of Blogging” for a whole bunch of different reasons. Some of you folks have Facebook accounts and post regular updates there, and that is quite […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 09/06/2010 @ 17:57