Comments on: Will Twitter be the death of the blog? http://www.benrapin.com/blog/2009/11/20/will-twitter-be-the-death-of-the-blog/ Grandfather clocks, 60 minutes, waking before the sun comes up...this is my life. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:16:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brittany http://www.benrapin.com/blog/2009/11/20/will-twitter-be-the-death-of-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-4907 Brittany Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:51:47 +0000 http://www.benrapin.com/blog/?p=303#comment-4907 Interesting post, Ben! Having spent just a year and a half in the "professional" world after graduating, it's been an interesting transition for me trying to decide "what information do I want on the net" and "if I blog/tweet/facebook this could it come back to haunt me later". As a student i used to blog pretty freely about what went on at school and funny things that happened at my student job. Now I feel like there are large chunks of my life I don't want to /can't share, (for example, i keep work totally off limits) and my blog has gone more 'silent' because of it. I used to post daily--now it's more like weekly or every other week. I don't use twitter a lot (nothing against it, just that most of my closer acquaintances use facebook and all of my more important twitter contacts -like you- repost their tweets on facebook, so I still get what I want anyway) but I am pretty avid on facebook and a lot of the smaller stuff that I used to blog, goes there. I feel like I'm able to be a little more candid there because of their privacy controls. Of course stuff still gets around--but I feel (perhaps erroneously) that I'm a little more able to control who sees it. If I had stuff like your fantasy fest photos, that i really wanted to post, I would probably do it there--with some pretty strict privacy limits on that album. Still not failsafe, because nothing's safe on the internet, but probably a good balance. Interesting post, Ben!
Having spent just a year and a half in the “professional” world after graduating, it’s been an interesting transition for me trying to decide “what information do I want on the net” and “if I blog/tweet/facebook this could it come back to haunt me later”.

As a student i used to blog pretty freely about what went on at school and funny things that happened at my student job. Now I feel like there are large chunks of my life I don’t want to /can’t share, (for example, i keep work totally off limits) and my blog has gone more ‘silent’ because of it. I used to post daily–now it’s more like weekly or every other week.

I don’t use twitter a lot (nothing against it, just that most of my closer acquaintances use facebook and all of my more important twitter contacts -like you- repost their tweets on facebook, so I still get what I want anyway) but I am pretty avid on facebook and a lot of the smaller stuff that I used to blog, goes there. I feel like I’m able to be a little more candid there because of their privacy controls. Of course stuff still gets around–but I feel (perhaps erroneously) that I’m a little more able to control who sees it. If I had stuff like your fantasy fest photos, that i really wanted to post, I would probably do it there–with some pretty strict privacy limits on that album. Still not failsafe, because nothing’s safe on the internet, but probably a good balance.

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