I've been thinking, is blogging still a valid pursuit or has it been taken over by the YouTube generation?
I could follow into that except I'm not a "twentysomething twink" wishing to perform public pranks or challenges. My approach is more mature than that and perhaps not suited to video performance. I'm also not really sure who my YouTube audience would be. Do older (as in fortysomethings) gravitate to YouTube as their preferred social media channel?
I dread to consider that most use Facebook. I have a pet hate with Facebook currently. During the Brexit Referendum I posted A LOT of political articles and comments and had extremely little response. Photos of kids' first day back at school or stupid cats always get the likes, whereas anything political seems just a bit too awkward to comment on. I also noticed that my mother (remember I had the Brexit argument with her) had taken to only liking non-political posts. By June 23rd she wasn't liking anything I posted as it was entirely political.
I suppose I went a bit overboard on Facebook with Brexit. On the one hand these people need to understand but on the other they just don't care. I shunned it for a while, after setting my profile to black on June 24th.
On the other hand Twitter has been quite good at putting forward those pithy remarks. I have over 2000 followers currently, although a lot of them are undoubtedly the #TeamGay brigade. Still it is refreshing to have people respond to my inane comments, political or not. Sometimes I do get trolled, either by a Brexiteer or a Alt-Rightist. I give as good as I get. I also take great pride in having been blocked by Andrea Leadsom.
I think the reason I have never embraced YouTube is due to a sense of privacy. You give everything with YouTube, including all those unscripted pauses that are like windows to the soul. I think you need to be a good performer to do that. I'm quite an awkward person. I don't like awkward pauses. I'm also terrible at live humour. Not that my writing is much better but at least I can be more considered in a blog.
And blogging is what it shall be.
I could follow into that except I'm not a "twentysomething twink" wishing to perform public pranks or challenges. My approach is more mature than that and perhaps not suited to video performance. I'm also not really sure who my YouTube audience would be. Do older (as in fortysomethings) gravitate to YouTube as their preferred social media channel?
I dread to consider that most use Facebook. I have a pet hate with Facebook currently. During the Brexit Referendum I posted A LOT of political articles and comments and had extremely little response. Photos of kids' first day back at school or stupid cats always get the likes, whereas anything political seems just a bit too awkward to comment on. I also noticed that my mother (remember I had the Brexit argument with her) had taken to only liking non-political posts. By June 23rd she wasn't liking anything I posted as it was entirely political.
I suppose I went a bit overboard on Facebook with Brexit. On the one hand these people need to understand but on the other they just don't care. I shunned it for a while, after setting my profile to black on June 24th.
On the other hand Twitter has been quite good at putting forward those pithy remarks. I have over 2000 followers currently, although a lot of them are undoubtedly the #TeamGay brigade. Still it is refreshing to have people respond to my inane comments, political or not. Sometimes I do get trolled, either by a Brexiteer or a Alt-Rightist. I give as good as I get. I also take great pride in having been blocked by Andrea Leadsom.
I think the reason I have never embraced YouTube is due to a sense of privacy. You give everything with YouTube, including all those unscripted pauses that are like windows to the soul. I think you need to be a good performer to do that. I'm quite an awkward person. I don't like awkward pauses. I'm also terrible at live humour. Not that my writing is much better but at least I can be more considered in a blog.
And blogging is what it shall be.
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