My blog’s older than Twitter and Facebook, and it will outlive them. It has seen Flickr explode and then fade. It’s seen Google Wave and Google Reader come and go, and it’ll still be here as Google Plus fades. When Medium and Tumblr are gone, my blog will be here.
The things that will last on the internet are not owned. Plain old websites, blogs, RSS, irc, email.
— Brent Simmons, commenting on “Community Services”.
These days I use Social Media more than I write in this blog, though it wasn’t always that way. Mostly that comes down expediency – it’s quicker to share a trivial thought or link on Twitter than write a post about it. Social Media, to get all Silicon Valley on you, is for ephemeral sharing. I don’t expect any of it to last, or be noticed beyond the <20 seconds it appears at the top of someone’s “feed.” It’s fleeting, and I think of it as such.
If I want to record something more substantial, or which will last, I use this blog. Maybe not as often as I should, and sometimes I’ve not cared for backing up the archives as much as I should have1. But the blog has endured anyway.
Chris McLeod mentioned this note on mrkapowski.com.