Sippy - most of the folks own a facebook account than a blog..Plus facebook is more for fun which might mean you would be "caught" in your natural state compared to writing about interesting trends..
@ruiwen: My blog Good Old Trend is for work, and Facebook is (semi) personal. Then I have other blogs - like Discobelle.net - which is personal, focusing on my interest in a certain type of music. They are all very different.
@bjorn I see, so you see these different areas of interest as entirely separate entities then? I might have thought (at least for the personal blogs) that they would be different aspects of the same person?
I think that there are too many applications going around in facebook that people are more interested in poking, giving gifts and playing games on facebook.
My friends doesn't see how I can write a serious blog. They have never heard about something like that before, they see blogs as a synonym to diary.
My Facebook is personal. My Flickr too. My Jaiku is semi-professional (cause noone of my nearest friends actually use it, but the whole Web-Sweden do it) and my blog is professional. But I have 4 different blogs, so I have my personal stuff at another place then my main-blog ;)
How does a poke show what kind of person you are? I think facebook is good for knowing quick updates of a person, but for personality and thoughts, I think blogs are still better.
@anton But taking out the professional element then.. your personal site.. which would portray the real 'you' more? The blog or social networking profile?
@sippy Yes. I am quite different from many other web-people cause I both have a foot in the SEO-industry, the web 2.0-industry and also got a lot of projects myself.
Therefore I have a blog that focuses on SEO (superanton.se) and my projects and another blog about social media/blogosphere/web 2.0 (fyranyanser.se). These two are my private blogs, but Fyra nyanser focuses on a bit more serious topics.
Then I am blogging at primelabs.se (I was actually hired as a professional blogger but since then I do a lot more at primelabs..) and at applemac.se (a swedish blog about Apple/Mac).
@agaton Wow, that's quite a lot of blogging that you have to do.
I think another thing I have noticed is that some people have entirely different personality online! Be it on facebook or blogs. They are so quiet in person, but they sound really extroverted online.
I think I am a good example of that. Noone would hire me directly normal (I am fucking 18 year old!) but because I got skillz online, most people don't care.
Okey, I think most online-people would have quite right view of me cause my personality is likely both online and offline. But of course, and that's the interesting thing with Facebook. Before could you have a nickname at communitys, with Facebook you are yourself!
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Blog- book
1 year, 7 months ago by mahesh427
I would think a blog will represent people better.
1 year, 7 months ago by sippy
my Second Life avatar! It sleeps all the time :))))
1 year, 7 months ago by bertranol
@mahesh What's a blog-book? Or did you mean a combination?
@bertranol HAHA Didn't know Second Life avatars slept =D
1 year, 7 months ago by ruiwen
It's more of a question about identity. My Facebook and my blog shows two different ones - intentionally.
1 year, 7 months ago by bjornjeffery
Sippy - most of the folks own a facebook account than a blog..Plus facebook is more for fun which might mean you would be "caught" in your natural state compared to writing about interesting trends..
1 year, 7 months ago by mahesh427
true. do agree that they should be separated, cuz both serve different purposes =)
1 year, 7 months ago by Alisonwks
different crowd, different identity
1 year, 7 months ago by jocke
@bjorn How different are you personalities on your blog and Facebook account? What do you portray on each? Well.. generally anyway =)
@mahesh So writing about interesting stuff isn't a 'natural state'?
1 year, 7 months ago by ruiwen
How many of write blogs about "how drunk you are" compared to serious trends & industry news?
1 year, 7 months ago by mahesh427
I'm one of those folks without a blog and i'm always on facebook. But since you said it's more for fun, won't it not be representative too?
1 year, 7 months ago by sippy
I think it depends what type of blog you are projecting in the first place too. The very "personal" type or the kind that is more general.
1 year, 7 months ago by sippy
@sippy Quite true.. for those who like to write about all aspects of their lives perhaps.. then we'd have "Look how drunk I was!!!" blog posts..
1 year, 7 months ago by ruiwen
@ruiwen: My blog Good Old Trend is for work, and Facebook is (semi) personal. Then I have other blogs - like Discobelle.net - which is personal, focusing on my interest in a certain type of music. They are all very different.
1 year, 7 months ago by bjornjeffery
Exactly and there is always the problem of communication compared to facebook where everything is done for you :)
1 year, 7 months ago by mahesh427
@bjorn I see, so you see these different areas of interest as entirely separate entities then? I might have thought (at least for the personal blogs) that they would be different aspects of the same person?
@mahesh What kind of communication?
1 year, 7 months ago by ruiwen
I think that there are too many applications going around in facebook that people are more interested in poking, giving gifts and playing games on facebook.
1 year, 7 months ago by sippy
I guess the question then is: Do people want to be known by their Facebook pokes? Or the articles they write?
1 year, 7 months ago by ruiwen
My friends doesn't see how I can write a serious blog. They have never heard about something like that before, they see blogs as a synonym to diary.
My Facebook is personal. My Flickr too. My Jaiku is semi-professional (cause noone of my nearest friends actually use it, but the whole Web-Sweden do it) and my blog is professional. But I have 4 different blogs, so I have my personal stuff at another place then my main-blog ;)
1 year, 7 months ago by agaton
How does a poke show what kind of person you are? I think facebook is good for knowing quick updates of a person, but for personality and thoughts, I think blogs are still better.
1 year, 7 months ago by sippy
@agaton how do you maintain so many blogs? do you try to portray yourself differently in different blogs?
1 year, 7 months ago by sippy
@anton But taking out the professional element then.. your personal site.. which would portray the real 'you' more? The blog or social networking profile?
1 year, 7 months ago by ruiwen
@sippy Yes. I am quite different from many other web-people cause I both have a foot in the SEO-industry, the web 2.0-industry and also got a lot of projects myself.
Therefore I have a blog that focuses on SEO (superanton.se) and my projects and another blog about social media/blogosphere/web 2.0 (fyranyanser.se). These two are my private blogs, but Fyra nyanser focuses on a bit more serious topics.
Then I am blogging at primelabs.se (I was actually hired as a professional blogger but since then I do a lot more at primelabs..) and at applemac.se (a swedish blog about Apple/Mac).
You see? 4 different approaches of myself.
1 year, 7 months ago by agaton
@ruiwen
The social networking-profile, of course! My relations is me and therefore is my facebook-profile the best resource for learning more about me.
But, that's not relevant for a business-contact? I see the blogs as personal branding and for a way to do business in the long run.
1 year, 7 months ago by agaton
@agaton Wow, that's quite a lot of blogging that you have to do.
I think another thing I have noticed is that some people have entirely different personality online! Be it on facebook or blogs. They are so quiet in person, but they sound really extroverted online.
1 year, 7 months ago by sippy
@sippy
I think I am a good example of that. Noone would hire me directly normal (I am fucking 18 year old!) but because I got skillz online, most people don't care.
Okey, I think most online-people would have quite right view of me cause my personality is likely both online and offline. But of course, and that's the interesting thing with Facebook. Before could you have a nickname at communitys, with Facebook you are yourself!
1 year, 7 months ago by agaton