Facebook ate my Blogspot

After futzing around on Facebook for a couple of months, I realize that it’s cutting horribly into the time I spent thinking about this blog. That seems to be a pretty frequent happening on the net; I certainly don’t claim to be suffering from something unique, here. But it’s interesting how that’s come to be. Maintaining the blog requires a lot more active work, whereas I can just hang on FB and watch my often hyperactive friends pepper me with links and the occasional burst of personal information. I suppose that everyone’s short attention span is also more rewarded by the Chinese fortune cookie style of writing on FB. On the other hand, FB isn’t nearly as anonymous, and isn’t the right forum for getting an interesting idea across.

Nevertheless, I’m still trying to come back here a few times (once?) a month and say something substantive. And I’m not interested in bashing the flourishing of FB as some kind of evidence that our society is crashing in flames like the Hindenburg. That’s what I think about Livejournal. Kidding!