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Finding The Balance
The problem I have now is that I have two main portals to communicate with audiences online. One's my Facebook feed and the other's this blog. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to come back to blogging given the daily updates I do on Facebook. In general, I'll post something like 3-4 messages (links, videos etc) on my Facebook profile each day. And I haven't updated this blog in months!Having said that, I definitely notice a gap. A lot of the "sharing" on Facebook is me essentially piggybacking on content produced by other people. I wanted this blog to be all about original content as well as sharing of random content from all over the internet. It's not gonna work out that way since Facebook is much better geared towards "sharing" than Blogger (or any Blogging platform for that matter). Additionally, there's a confirmed audience on Facebook whereas there's an "unknown" audience on blogs (or at least this blog where my visitor numbers each day can be counted on one hand).
I want to keep writing as much as possible and it's for this reason that I've decided that I'll only gear this blog towards original content and leave the sharing to others (or to my Facebook feed). I do share tons of content on my Facebook feed and if you're so inclined, you can always add me there (please do add a comment when you're trying to add me as a friend on Facebook). There are a host of articles I've planned and in the coming weeks, I'll be talking here a lot more.
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Mind Your Language
If you've travelled on the MRT in Singapore, you've definitely heard the announcer go: "Please report any suspicious people or articles on the train". I've always had an issue with that line. What does it really mean to be a "suspicious person"? Isn't that profiling in itself? You're asking people to be wary of what. Beards? Long moustaches? Tattoos? For a long time I've felt that this should be rephrased. Perhaps, it would be better for the announcer to replace "suspicious people" with "suspicious behaviour". I recently visited NYC and while taking the subway, this was the first thing I noticed: the announcer there specifically uses "suspicious behaviour". Is it possible that the US is more mindful of these things given the delicate racial/cultural balance of the society? I suspect here in Singapore, we hardly even notice these things i.e. unintentional slip. permalink 0 comments