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I don't understand how Blogger was a social network in the way FB is?

douche 10y ago
At one point, Blogger was as much a social network as Tumblr is now. At least, I think I remember that; it was about a decade ago now.
posterboy 10y ago
a blog is a webbed personal log with comments and the core functionality fb offers is just that, a simple to set up homepage? Blogs have a blogroll instead of a friendlist, does that make a big difference? Seriously asking, I don't use the latter.
- nixos 10y ago
  All it lacked was a built-in phpbb forum (FB groups)
- hellofunk 10y ago
  Well the interface and way of sharing and communicating with people is totally different, so I am surprised to see them compared.
  - posterboy 10y ago
    >the way of communicating with people is totally different lol u srs? j/k <3
f_allwein 10y ago
That's the idea here. If all your friends had blogs, they could easily create/ share content there the way they do on FB now. You could follow them in Google Reader, or any other RSS reader. Moreover, you could add content from news sites, most of which still offer RSS feeds.
- amelius 10y ago
  But what if you want to share stuff only with friends, and not with the rest of the world?
  - f_allwein 10y ago
    True, that is not really covered in this scenario. Except Blogger gives you an option of whether or not to list your blog on search engines. I have a privat blog from before the FB era that is not listed, and does not show up on Google searches for my name. Although of course, I would not put any confidential information on there.
    - amelius 10y ago
      Well, of course it should allow my friends to search my blogs . Just not the rest of the world. But I guess that if Blogger would be "open", so that other search engines could also index those blogs, then this whole scenario would not work (malignant search engines could expose everything to everybody). So my suspicion is that it would actually be quite hard (or at least require more research) to make an "open" version of facebook.
    - ethbro 10y ago
      The original post misses the visibility point. To me, Twitter benefits from being public discourse and an open forum for replies. On the other side of the coin, Facebook benefits from being a private forum (as most people use it). Solutions that don't facilitate these use cases aren't going to be successful. Understand why people chose the services they did (discounting network effect) and then try and build something to compete.
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - dpandey 10y ago
    And what if what you really wanted to share was a photo, or a comment, or an article from NYT or Vogue, and not a long piece of writing? Isn't that what most of Facebook is used for?

At one point, Blogger was as much a social network as Tumblr is now. At least, I think I remember that; it was about a decade ago now.

posterboy 10y ago

a blog is a webbed personal log with comments and the core functionality fb offers is just that, a simple to set up homepage? Blogs have a blogroll instead of a friendlist, does that make a big difference? Seriously asking, I don't use the latter.

nixos 10y ago
All it lacked was a built-in phpbb forum (FB groups)
hellofunk 10y ago
Well the interface and way of sharing and communicating with people is totally different, so I am surprised to see them compared.
- posterboy 10y ago
  >the way of communicating with people is totally different lol u srs? j/k <3

f_allwein 10y ago

That's the idea here. If all your friends had blogs, they could easily create/ share content there the way they do on FB now. You could follow them in Google Reader, or any other RSS reader. Moreover, you could add content from news sites, most of which still offer RSS feeds.

amelius 10y ago
But what if you want to share stuff only with friends, and not with the rest of the world?
- f_allwein 10y ago
  True, that is not really covered in this scenario. Except Blogger gives you an option of whether or not to list your blog on search engines. I have a privat blog from before the FB era that is not listed, and does not show up on Google searches for my name. Although of course, I would not put any confidential information on there.
  - amelius 10y ago
    Well, of course it should allow my friends to search my blogs . Just not the rest of the world. But I guess that if Blogger would be "open", so that other search engines could also index those blogs, then this whole scenario would not work (malignant search engines could expose everything to everybody). So my suspicion is that it would actually be quite hard (or at least require more research) to make an "open" version of facebook.
  - ethbro 10y ago
    The original post misses the visibility point. To me, Twitter benefits from being public discourse and an open forum for replies. On the other side of the coin, Facebook benefits from being a private forum (as most people use it). Solutions that don't facilitate these use cases aren't going to be successful. Understand why people chose the services they did (discounting network effect) and then try and build something to compete.
- deleted 10y ago
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- dpandey 10y ago
  And what if what you really wanted to share was a photo, or a comment, or an article from NYT or Vogue, and not a long piece of writing? Isn't that what most of Facebook is used for?