3 ms·

Isn't Facebook just a form of microblogging?

• dredmorbius 8y ago
  Sort of. One of the biggest problems with Facebook is that most of the site is inward-facing. That is, unless you are on and registered with Facebook, you cannot view content. (That's a fault shared with numerous other sites, FWIW.) Facebook may be able to pull this off, for now. Almost no site not called "Facebook" (or its equivalent category leader) can do so -- you simply need an overwhelming network effect OR an exceptionally compelling founding cohort. Blogs are to a near totality universally accessible, at least to read, if not comment. That's not quite definitional, but true enough in practice to be a category marker.