Let's see the google trend of blog first. The interest towards blogs is slowly, but constantly dropping overtime since 2009.
Blogging is no longer cool, that's for sure. Even Facebook is no longer considered cool to teens. But we google every day and find useful information on blogs, such as "How to change my computer settings?", or "How to bake a cheese cake?", or "How to fix my doorknob?". Of course, there're numerous YouTube videos covering every topic you're looking for. However, sometimes it is hard to follow the instructions shown in the video because they cannot cover all angles. Plus, we might have already figured out the most part of it. All we need to know is one tiny specific detail. Luckily, we still have blogs covering all these stuffs for us.
Think about it, we no longer read, unless it's serious business to deal with. We no longer subscribe to newspapers and magazines. Less and Less people read before they go to bed. Instead, we just watch TV, the moving pictures. It is indeed easier to take in information through a visual experience, which all the information is pre-digested and ready to serve rather than comprehensively read pages of content all by ourselves. Although some might argue that we lose so many layers of the information concealed within the content. My opinion is, sorry, if a writer still tries to hide something deep between lines, I won't even try to dig it out. There're so many more to take in. Why bother? That's nothing new. We're lazy by human nature. Laziness is the ladder leading to technology advancement.
Back on track, the death of blog? It depends on how you view it. Yes, it probably won't get good attention as it used to be. But it can certainly serve as a place to express ourselves. Me? I am just keep writing something every day, try to share useful experience, personal insight. People read it, people don't read it, it doesn't really matter.
I am heading to watch some good TV. :)
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