Through Facebook eyes only

Back in the day when AOL was growing in popularity, there were those who visited the world wide web only through sites actually 'on' AOL. It occurs to me that today a similar situation is developing around the enormous usage of Facebook.

Facebook users have their own self-contained email/messaging system with other users their so-called 'friends'. There is less need for sending actual emails to anyone for a growing number of Facebookers. There are folks too who hire themselves out to individuals to seek freinds for a fee so that friend lists may grow larger more quickly. Ditto commercial venues who seek "likes' to appear more poular. And commercial websites are making sure that they not only have a web domain sit of their own but also a Facebook page. Have blogs and simple domain pages begun to lose out to Facebook friends/like-rs?

Do the majority of Facebook users ONLY utilize Facebook for their whole web experience? I do not know the answers to these questions , it is more a 'Spidey sense' that I am getting about today's web experience.

I also must say that I resisted the need to migrate my blogs over to the new-improved Blogger only recently starting up this particular blog. I hope you will consider 'joining' this blog through Google or Facebook. Which brings up the question, will even the giant Google lose out to Facebook?

Must say that one BIG reason for the continued usage of weblogs is that you can actually WRITE something longer than a paragraph...For most people this is not so necessary a thing. For a writer, it is essential to one's creative health. Will anyone take the time to READ passages longer than a paragraph? We shall see.

[This comment emailed into BunnytownUSA blogcentral...
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"As I am a non-Facebook-using loser, how do I "join" your blog? The "Follow this blog" button at top right is definitely a Facebook thing. And what does that mean for Facebook users? If they "follow" your blog, do they just get a "piece of the action" on their page, wall, side of a barn, or whatever it's called OR do they get a link to this site and then the choice to venture outside the world of Facebook?

While I continue to not want to be on Facebook, I do realize I am choosing to be a member of a different class of internet user than a Facebooker. FB folk may choose to stay in their FB community, but they have the choice to venture out into the much more egalitarian WWW. Meanwhile, I don't have the choice to see anything on FB or vote for my fave charity, without joining FB and building a network of associations. Sounds as if I'm missing out and yet I don't feel I am. I guess I'm just comfy being a member of the lower class.

And now I see that I have to "profile" myself just to post this comment ... What does it mean that I don't have a profile?"]