More Tweets, Fewer Blog Posts

Lately I find I'm posting fewer and fewer blog posts. It's not that I have lost interest in blogging but that I have started Facebooking and Twittering. Those services, along with a few other social web sites, seem to be capturing my interest much more these days.

Before, when I wanted to share a link to something interesting I'd read, I would incorporate it into a blog post. This means I had to, you know, actually think of something to write, which is sort of, um, like work?

But on Facebookm if I want to share a link, I just post the link on my profile page with a one-line comment. This takes much less time and also keeps me from having to write something original. Now, I can just act as an echo chamber for something that catches my fancy. Much less work for my brain, and for those of my readers. Lets me save those precious neurons for later, when I might have to think a thought or something.

Twitter is a microblogging service where you have to condense your most complex ideas and discussions into posts no longer than 140 characters. I'm embarrassed to say that most of my blog posts can be converted into Twitter "tweets" with room to spare. Absolutely no problem. It's mortifyin'.

Between Twittering and blogging, I'm finding that my posts are getting both shorter and longer. My tweets are short, and my blog posts, when I actually get around to posting a blog entry, are getting longer and longer. What's disappeared are one or two paragraph blog entries that I used to dash off commenting on something of other.