This is supposed to be my first entry in my newly set up blog. What should I write here? Who knows?
Maybe a better question is why? Why have a blog in the age of social media? The only necessary presence now seems to be a Facebook profile and maybe a microblogging account on the site formerly known as Twitter. That should be enough for this internet era, right?
Events from recent years should have shown us that this isn’t always a wise idea. You never know when one billionaire will try to find his “masculine energy” and another one will go full “nazi mode”, and suddenly you don’t have your safe space anymore.
Now we are finding out that choosing convenience isn’t always the best idea. Years of work can disappear in the blink of an eye, and with them, also community and revenue streams.
A world where our business page is only on Facebook, years of photos on Instagram, news sourced exclusively from Twitter, and cute cat videos from TikTok is utopia. This kind of world is a wet dream only for the above-mentioned billionaires.
There is always a place for personal blogs, even after all these years, because only there can we create our own rules, our own “Terms of Use,” and only we can decide how we handle our own content.