Social media has long been about anything that’s short and quick: 140-character tweets, 10-second Snapchats, and six-second Vines, for example. But all of that is about to change as Silicon Valley tech experts and companies are predicting a rise in a longer form of social media posting and they call it platform blogging—in short, plogging.
Facebook has done changes to its Notes feature to make room for “more beautiful and customizable” posts, which is what separates it from just updating your status. Twitter, on the other hand, is planning to extend its 140-character limit giving way for “long-form content.” Wired reports that these new features are said to be a response to a growing trend: People are now looking into Facebook and Twitter as reading platforms more than actual news sites and blogs.
The plog, which is longer than a status update but shorter than an actual blog post, is basically blogging via an online platform.
Though they say that blogging is already dead, any attempt to bring it back to life, or any semblance of it, isn’t a bad idea. We’d have to wait and see whether these Silicon Valley geniuses are right about this next big feature on social media.
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