Blogs VS Social Media

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‘Social media has saved blogging from stagnation and extinction’ (Bullas 2012).

Social media increased online sharing and encouraged the discovery of bloggers. Users of social media can distribute content efficiently to their social network of friends and followers. Through these social media, users can search for people who have an interest on the same topics. With this, blogs on similar topics that are shared on social media websites can be found easily (Bullas 2012). Besides that, the sharing of a blog post on social media websites helps in increasing the number of subscribers to the blog. The links from social media websites can be useful in having the blog posts indexed quickly by search engines (Sbabzy n.d.).

Social media provides many opportunities for bloggers. Bloggers can create a blog which is its own brand through social media websites. Bloggers can create a community on social media websites around their blog. This allows bloggers to earn serious profits by marketing affiliate products to the communities (Sbabzy n.d).

Besides that, it is expected that the future of blogging will join forces with major internet companies, for example: Facebook. Facebook will have its own blogging platform that is fully integrated into its site. Users will find it easy to use the blogging platforms in these social media website (Sbabzy n.d).

Furthermore, VLOGS (video blogs) is the next generation of blogging. There is an increasing trend of vlogs that are shared through social media websites. Bloggers will create more video blogs that are shared more often through social media websites than traditional blog posts (Sbabzy n.d).

References

Bullas, J. 2012, ‘Blogging statistics – facts and figures’, JeffBullas, viewed on 29 September 2013, <http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/08/02/blogging-statistics-facts-and-figures-in-2012-infographic/#1W0f8lWZYMc7pMtd.99>

Sbabzy, n.d., ‘The Future of Blogging: Will Blogging be Dead in 2020?’, viewed on 29 September 2013, <http://sbabzy.com/the-future-of-blogging-will-blogging-be-dead-in-2020/ >