First, Blogger started malfunctioning in April-May of this year. As a result, many people left the platform and moved their blogs somewhere else.
Now LiveJournal has crashed. From what I hear, LJ bloggers now have limits on how long their posts can be. And still, nobody guarantees that the blogs will work. (If you think Blogger’s customer service is bad, you need to meet LJ’s. That one is truly abysmal.)
This shows either that blogging is becoming more popular with every passing day or that somebody is sabotaging popular blogging platforms. I’m not very much into conspiracy theories, so, for me, blogging is on the rise.
Blogging offers so much creative freedom that no Twitter, Facebook or Google+ can substitute it. It is a way to go beyond the triviality of posting endless pictures of boring events and senseless status updates. Its goal is not to let you sort your small group of acquaintances into a great number of circles to convince yourself you are more important and popular than you are in reality.
Blogging is all about expressing yourself in a way that makes it quite obvious very soon whether you actually have a self to express.
Clarissa's Blog 
Bogging, Blogging or Bugging. Oh, there’s a bug! 😉
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Many have annouced the “Death of the blogosphere”! They were wrong! 🙂 🙂
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“Blogging offers so much creative freedom that no Twitter, Facebook or Google+ can substitute it.”
Blogging is just another thing than these short-cut social medias.
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Very true.
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Medias??? There is no such word. ‘Media’ is already the plural of ‘medium’ and ‘medias’ is meaningless.
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David Gendron is a French-speaker.
For me, medias means stockings because that’s what it means in Spanish. When I saw the comments on my dashboard I wondered what provoked a discussion about stockings in this post. 🙂
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Tumblr seems to be the new Livejournal. I can’t stand either. Livejournal has the most aggressive business model I’ve seen in this type of website. They force me to sit through video ads as part of the hoops to jump through to comment, or sometimes even to read. I treat the whole livejournal.com domain as spam.
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I agree completely. Livejournal was bought by the Russians in 2008, so what can you expect? They are still very much at the “wild capitalism” stage of development.
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There’s a typo in the first word in the fourth paragraph. I thought bogging weighed people down, rather than promoting freedom.
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Must be a Freudian slip. Hee hee hee. Thanks, I appreciate it!
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