Is Social Blogging Addictive?

Writing by Brick Marketing on Sunday, 13 of July , 2008 at 11:22 pm

It seems it might be. As I start to look around the internet I see signs of social blogging, or micro blogging as it is often called, everywhere.

There are a couple of quite humorous videos floating around Youtube centered on the addictive nature of sites like Twitter. Blog writers are probably the biggest users, and certainly the biggest culprits when it comes to spending at lot of time social blogging - but then blogging comes naturally to them anyway.

It is going further than just spending time on the sites. There are plugins available now to include your social blogging on your sites, and other plugins available to send new content from your site to your social blogging account.

Social blogging is perhaps a sign of the times where reality television is starting to wane in popularity. Micro blogging is starting to take its place. For some, you will know exactly what they are doing at any given time of day. What they are eating (must be some market research use there), what they are drinking, watching of TV. Even down to who they are dating, where they are going and what they are doing - really must we get all the details including their bathroom visits.

Fortunately we don’t have film footage to go with these tweets although it wouldn’t surprise me if that become the next fad, video tweets.

Social blogging is fine and some of the bigger bloggers and web owners have learned how to master them. They can participate in some of the micro blogging activities and then switch off and put their mind back onto the job at hand. For these users, social blogging is all about keeping the ‘fans’ happy and the traffic coming in.

For many others, social blogging does not provide any real marketing benefits, it just chews up valuable time. Are you addicted to social blogging?

                      Category: Social Blogging                      

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