To all bloggers: If you were born and brought up in the time of modern social media, where Twitter and Instagram have always existed, would you even blog?

@moonmehta Good question.

@moonmehta I don’t think I can know.

@moonmehta Yes. I’m weird that way.

@moonmehta Yep!

@moonmehta I wasn’t born into this time but was in elementary school when Twitter debuted. I didn’t have a blog until two years ago. Nobody in school asks what your blog is so they can follow it. It’s just not a thing. Only a couple of my peers have blogs.

@pratik Was that a yes or no? Some part of your reply seems to be missing.

@davids Interesting.

@pratik Isn’t that an interesting conclusion? Especially for the people who blog and encourage others to but weren’t from this time and haven’t experienced the Internet the way younger people have.

@pratik Yup, exactly.

@pratik I do think blogging platforms have become easier to use relative to the last decade, including registering a domain from within, but the friction still remains high enough as you alluded. I too think that people need to whine less about how people don’t blog and be more inquisitive and empatheric about why so. That’s what I tried conveying in the last question on my People and Blogs interview as well.

@moonmehta thank you for this question, you got me going and reflected on this in three ways.

@jthingelstad Love this!

Incidentally, I’ve used a similar analogy as your apartment and homes example in my article on “how to feel at home on the Internet”.

@moonmehta agree. Not your domain, not your words.