Facebook vs. Blogging

A lot of my followers have commented on my being 'counterproductive' about creating a blog after giving up Facebook for Lent. In a completely non defensive manner, I think that these two forms of social networking and online communication differ greatly. Thus, I will provide the top 10 reasons blogging and Facebook do not replace one another.

1. Blogging allows you to be more creative when it comes to layout, design, colors and postings- so you can create a much more unique and personalized page.

2. A core focus of Facebook with its news feed is to read about others, what they are talking about and what their pictures are of. Blogging eliminates this factor of stalking others, nonetheless, utilizing your creative skills in a productive manner rather than to discover who knows who.

3. Facebook only allows you to see other people's interests and activities, but blogging opens up the opportunity to learn a lot more about such things.

4. Scrapbookers such as myself can apply their scrapbooking knowledge to blogging when it comes to creating photo pages, writing captions and more.

5. A blog post is much more thorough and meaningful than a Facebook status, because dramatic Facebook statuses that are so thought out are probably not worth the drama anyway. Just let the whole story out!

6. Although blogs are more public than Facebook and its so called "privacy settings," more unnecessary people (such as old middle school classmates, etc.) will browse your Facebook profile than your blog because they will see you in feeds.

7. Facebook cannot be used as a diary, while blogging can be if desired.

8. The information one posts on a blog is generally taken more seriously than a Facebook album or description.

9. Bloggers don't have to worry about new games or applications, rather can add useful gadgets to profiles to enhance learning rather than useless knowledge of games and odd applications.

10. Blogs are meant to reach out to friends (maybe strangers in reality...but this one isn't) whereas the information you post on Facebook is published so any random person you have met in your life that is a 'friend' can think highly of you. So bascially, I'm not creating this blog so you think highly of me or anything, or to use it instead of Facebook, I honestly just think it is a fun and creative way to document my college life :)

Will this newfound hobby of blogging make me delete my Facebook? Of course not. But these two sites are in no way replaceable of one another and I will remain to be an avid user of both, while browsing less profiles on Facebook. Thanks for reading!!