“Blogging is slow, it’s boring, it doesn’t generate buzz. If you want to make friends, go on Facebook; if you want to influence people, try Twitter,” says Richard Bailey at PR Studies. WIRED magazine’s Paul Boutin even says Twitter is to 2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004.
Yes, I consider Facebook fun, and helpful. And I occasionally Twitter. But I don’t find it influential because the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty bad. At least so far.