Reflection of different blog
service
To be honest, I don’t
have a traditional individual blog in China before, I just search some academic
resources from other relative educators’ blogs by using searching engine. Chines
people always like starting a range of interesting topics and posting their
opinions in discussion forums provided by Internet companies like Baidu or
Tencent because it’s more convenient and easy-operated than using blogs.
As a result, blog is
not popular as effective communication and discussion tool like microblog in
China now, it seems like Chinese people won’t like spend time on building personal
blogs and getting down to write some meaningful insights about their lives in
this rapid-rhythm society.
We looked through
four different types of blog service providers on class from their indicated consumers
and powerful features such as customizing appearance easier, setting personal
posts habits and adding various plug-in applications to make blogs strengthen,
but I couldn’t find any dedicated services which focus on mobile appliances
usage such as friendly interactive settings. I have tried using blogger in my
smartphone, but the using experience was not so good.
As we all know, the rapid
development of smartphone cut time into pieces, people prefer using smartphones
to look though news quickly or for other purpose as the substitute of laptop
when they have a short break between busy study or working process. They won’t
like reading bloated contents as today’s blogs did anymore.
Blog service
providers should take measures to the ongoing evolution of information generating
and people’s reading styles, otherwise it would be replaced by other advanced
similar service.
You are quite correct that the shorter instant messages in Twitter or Weibo, and the microblogs like Facebook and QQ are far more popular - because it takes thought and a certain amount of writing skill to write a blog. Unfortunately, most forum type services have fallen out of favor and are not often found in common use in the US because in that forum many people degrade into name calling and obscenities. In a forum, that is hard to block. With instant messaging and microblogging, one can block messages from those sorts of people more effectively than on a forum.
ReplyDeleteGood points!