Simple really. There is no where else currently on the web where you can post content without there being some kind of hidden agenda, and your information and data being used to further someone’s ends. This is the only place currently on the web where people are actively engaging with each other, and pursuing a meaningful dialogue. This is the only place on the web where the creators and designers are actively involved with their users. In the short time I have been on Ello, I have made new friends, found new artists, gained access to new and exciting work, and seen a lively, exciting and thought provoking interaction and dialectic.
Read MoreBlogging and Facebook: Long Live the Blog!
Is Blogging Dead? No, not really! Yesterday I tweeted the following, “Have @facebook pages had their day? Feels worn out to me now. I don’t have as much enthusiasm for my page any more.” I didn’t expect a response, because to be honest, many of my tweets are like farting into the wind, quickly gone and as quickly forgotten. However, friend and fellow artist Shayla Maddox responded, and we had, what was for Twitter anyway, a longer than usual conversation about social networking and blogging. It was my assertion, that whilst I was as active as ever on my own personal profile, given that’s where my friends and family are all gathered together, I was losing enthusiasm for my Facebook page, despite having over 2,700 followers. In truth, I got more comments, likes and activity on there two years or so ago when I had about 1000 followers. Now, in part I think this is down to the mercurial drive of Facebook to squeeze every last dollar out of it’s members, and making it harder and harder for pages to be a useful business tool, unless they pay up, and in fact…businesses are waking up to this. I also think that people are just plain bored with them.
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