Blogs
were widely used in China before Weibo (Chinese twitter) came in. People like
Weibo because it doesn't require a long essay to express feelings and opinions;
instead, it forces people to write short comments and easy sentences. Literacy
now is acquired through fragmentized input and output. As a matter of fact, I personally
was a blogger, but I am not anymore. I am jumping around Weibo, reposting some
else’s articles and saying some quick stuff about my days.
When I
set up this blog as required by the course, I suddenly realized that I have
left blogs behind for too long! I am really excited to have things back to ways
they used to be! I love writing and this is how I am going to reacquaint myself
to writing and to connect myself to blog learning.
You are quite right that in some ways Twitter has diminished the popularity of blogs, but each can fill a different niche in teaching and learning. Only blogs allow the writers to fully express their ideas and keep a more "detailed conversation" going through comments while Twitter or Weibo exchanges are great for exchanging smaller bits of information.
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