It still feels like social media, facebook especially, took away a lot of blog traffic. At the same time, social media took away a lot of traffic from tradition

It still feels like social media, facebook especially, took away a lot of blog traffic. At the same time, social media took away a lot of traffic from traditional forums. Add the reality that not everyone was making as much money as they thought, prolific spammers, blog content thieves, and the continued rise of mobile web traffic, and you have a lot of abandoned blogs. Blogging takes creativity and a lot of time, more so than many people realized. I tried to do it when I was under-employed. Getting traffic was very difficult, and ad revenue was nowhere to be found.