thread: 2013-05-18 : Anyway vs G+: complicating factors
On 2013-05-18, Rafu wrote:
It's a good point you rise here. To me, it means that your g+ usage has a similar value to or encompasses the same sphere as what I would keep for face-to-face conversations (impermanent and honest), maybe e-mail exchanges (slower, sorta permanent, but usually about as honest), sometimes telephone calls (just a poor surrogate of face-to-face), etc. Not the same kind of content I expect on a blog, not even the same kind of conversation I expect in blog comments, even when this particular blog is so close to being a forum.
But—since you're the one who brought up forums—I think that, no matter what they were set to achieve, historically forums have always been much closer to the "blog" side of this spectrum then to the "face-to-face" conversation side of it. *Most especially* the Forge (by the time I discovered it, it was basically Ron's very heavily commented blog).
