Why Social Networks Wont Kill the Blog

In the last year, users have turned to social sharing platforms like Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram to share bite-sized snacks of content, while relying on blogs to enable longer forms of communication and self-expression. In one sense, its become the equivalent of a social media full meal.

But, as if on cue, online Cassandras meet this growth in social sites with various visions of social media death. Are these newer tools Twitter-killers? The "next Facebook? The sign of end-times for blogs? The short answer is no.

When looking at the data about how these new sharing platforms play, particularly with blogs, its more accurate to consider them all to be a blogger's best…
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