Many of whom are unfamiliar with social-media would presume that micro-blogging is the same as blogging and thus subject to the same sort of criticism.  The criticism being that blogs, and bloggers, are pretentious in nature in that they assume their amateur musings are insightful, witty, entertaining or all of these things combined.  A cogent assessment, but unfair in my opinion, and certainly this criticism should not pertain to micro-blogging.  To compare the two as one in the same is inaccurate.

Social-media, in my opinion, is an extension of aspects of social correspondence and dynamics already in existence.  Thus bloggers could be consider as the “loud mouths”, and on occasion the “wise observers”, of any given group of individuals.  Though an over-saturation of blogging is certainly present, a return to “professionalism” amongst blogs seems to be an ever-growing trend as well the subsequent notoriety of the blogs most visited are beginning to take hold and this is even a realized fact by those attempting to “publish” blogs.  An over-saturation of blogging, professional or no, can be grounds for criticism, especially in comparison to old-media and our preconceived notions and reverence of institutionalized publications.  But that is another arguable grouping of concepts.  

The fact of the matter is that the wide-reaching medium that is the internet would no doubt result in an over-saturation of “published” musings and whether this is a good or bad thing is another discussion entirely.  Blogs are an extension of interpersonal discourse and shouldn’t be subject to additional criticisms for their very nature alone.  The criticisms of blogs should be that of ones that would arise of the blogger themselves regardless of their internet presence. Micro-Blogging, however, is something different.

Micro-Blogging is mainly the sporadic posting of various media (photos, videos, etc.) as well as inspirational quotes, and the occasional commentary.  An evolution of email forwards if you will. In terms of “Twitter” I see this as an evolution of text messaging, which in turn, is simply an evolution of phone calls or conversation in general.

One should not so hastily criticize micro-blogging until they fully understand it or try it for themselves.

Join Twitter, create a Tumblr account, update your Facebook status; become a micro-blogger.

:)