It kind of feels like the traditional blog is dying out there on the Internet. With all of the social media formats out there… you are almost wasting your time by stringing together anything longer than 140 characters because most likely it’s not going to get read.
I’m on a bunch of these social media sites; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, SnapChat, Vine… just to name most the popular ones… and it feels like the attention span for content is getting shorter and shorter. Most likely, I’ve already lost half of you that might have started reading this post.
It’s all become a popularity contest for who can get the most likes the fastest. Content? Fuck the content. Fuck the thought and fuck the integrity. Just give it a like. Maybe it will go viral and I’ll become Internet-famous.
I fall into the trap too. Coming up with things to write about or sitting down to type my thoughts and feelings out can really be a lot of effort. And I don’t do it often enough. But when it comes down to writing a post here, it’s not about getting popular. It’s not about getting recognized. It’s not about going viral. It’s about getting my thoughts and feelings out and real. It’s about the process… the journey… and not the result or the destination. In the end, I’m writing for me and not for you.
That is so true! The part about people’s attention spans getting shorter and shorter. I used to write on a website called Wattpad, and even when I wrote stories there, everyone said to jump right into the action and have short chapters. I understood what they ment, but it just showed me that people don’t truly want to read anymore.
It’s sad 🙁
The Internet is still too young to really have any history to tell if this is going to be a continuing direction or if it’s just the result of a cyclical movement… where things will ultimately come back to the written word being king.
I hope that there’s a backlash against the tiny content excerpts and we get back to reading and writing. Ignorance is not a virtue.
Very true. I also hope that we get back to reading and writing. I hate how today’s society rushes everything, even books now.