Blogging in the digital age

​We are living in the digital age, the Information Age, the computer age, the new media age or the age of social media. 

Why I say this? According to my blogger friend of mine Roger Tichborne of the Barnet Eye (by the way, thanks for mentioning me on your blog Roger. Much appreciated), he stated on his blog post that there is “a lack of younger generation looking to setup” a blog except Mr Limitless (which is me Mr Limitless 95 as you know I have been a blogger for a year now). 

Well this is something I will talk about it in today’s blog post. You can read more on Roger’s blog post since his post is mainly about his reflection & his achievements as an blogger & being active in the community regarding local politics in Barnet. This is his blog 

So why aren’t today’s generations like my generation (Millennial) & younger generation (Generation Z) are mostly using social media platforms (the likes of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat & even TikTok) & not writing blogs? I will tell you why. 

As someone who was born in mid 90s (Millennial. Late millennial) & being friend to my blogger friend (Roger who was born in early 60s - Baby Boomer. Late baby boomer. In fact he is old enough to be my uncle), I say that every generation is different. It doesn’t matter which generation cohort are you part of. Whether is Greatest Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomer, Generation X, Millennial (often it is called Generation Y) or Generation Z or even Generation Alpha (first generation being born entirely in this century. 21st century who is expected to reach adulthood in the next decade 2030s). My point is that today’s generations (both Gen Y & Gen Z) are using social media platforms to be content creator, social media influencer (or social media personality), YouTuber or vlogger (video blogger) rather to do the things (past trends) what previous generations were doing. When I was born in 95, internet was already a new thing & that there were no smartphones. Just ordinary phones with buttons. If someone wants to use a computer, he/she would have to take turns to use a computer or going to the Internet cafe. 

Today, Internet cafe is old fashioned. No one goes there anymore as we all got smartphones, laptops and tablet computers. Internet cafe still exists, it is that nobody is mostly going there. 

So as an millennial blogger, it would be unfortunate that we would abandon things (some things are old) and go for the latest trends. It’s good that we have the internet and social networking sites & that everybody around the world can do anything online. Like writing a blog. 

Blog has been around since the existence of internet being available worldwide in the 1990s & to abandon it as if it does not exist other than just watching videos on YouTube or TikTok, well I say YouTube wasn’t around in the 90s until 2005 & Tik Tok wasn’t around until last few years in 2019. 

Although I do happen to have a YouTube account (where I upload my original music & that you can read my January blog post if you are interested), I don’t have accounts on Tik Tok or Snapchat & I am not quite interested. There is one thing that I used to have an account on MySpace who was popular social media site until 2011 & beyond which nobody like myself uses). 

I enjoy writing certain topics on my blog because it helps me to keep active & something that keeps me busy. At the end of the day, we have to use things that we have got. Otherwise, it becomes not existent. 

So if you really want to do blogging in the digital age whether is for fun (passion/hobby) or something that can turn into a job/career, then I would encourage you to start writing a blog today and choose a topic to write about & even having blogs as many as you like (one blog about one topic & another one about another topic). Soon, I will start to consider of having a second blog. When I do, you guys will be the first to know and I might think about doing a pen pal to make new friends in the world. Even writing pen pals letters is still the thing. Despite it is not much popular like it used to in the pre internet days. Especially nowadays it is online for pen pals. 

In conclusion. Everybody is different. Regardless of how old you are, writing a blog can be fun and it can be a blessing. I might think of writing a blog post with tips to write a perfect blog post on blog & having a great blogging technique. 

So yeah. Let’s all use things that we have got before it is not existent anymore and one of them is blogging. 😀🙂✍️✏️📧🖥💻📱