To Blog or Not to Blog

So, we’re at a sort of cross roads.  Blog or Facebook.

On one hand, almost everyone that reads this blog is on Facebook, and facebook is an easy way to do quick updates, but it’s so cluttered.

So, in an attempt to compromise, I’m going to see if we can get wordpress posts to show up automatically in facebook.  If that’s possible, then this site can be where we post our updates, and it will show up everywhere we want it to.

So why not just blog exclusively?  Well, as Opa recently mentioned, it’s a rather unrewarding endeavor.  The entire point of the blog is for people to read it, but there’s no obvious way to know who’s really reading and who isn’t.  Many people will read blogs and not comment.  Others will read blogs via third party sites like RSS readers, so you don’t even see that it was read at all.  And when compared to facebook, they just seem so formal.  I don’t want to feel obligated to post when I don’t feel like posting, but if a blog isn’t updated regularly people quit checking back for updates, so it’s a pretty mean cycle.  The less you write, the less people remember to visit, so the less rewarding writing is.

But let’s see if we can make this compromise work.

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