I don’t mind silos to some extent but I am getting fed up with noise and bad UX.

I recently set up Feedly to follow friends and interesting blogs directly; it took some time but now I find good content quickly and it’s been easier to keep track of posts I might have missed. I also started sharing content on Pocket(https://getpocket.com/@nuclearpengy), I discovered they launched public profiles. It looks like a cool way to share content.

I’m starting to see a shift(at least for myself) towards a weird blend of private and public content with public content going straight onto a blog running something open source like Ghost or WordPress and private content going through iMessage, Hangouts, Slack or WhatsApp.

I can tolerate ads on Facebook but the content on there is almost boring. I generally find interesting stuff on Twitter but the ads are really becoming overwhelming and Twitter doesn’t seem to care about anything more than growth at the moment, especially not the thoughts of power users or quality of UX.

Something else I’ve noticed/realised is that content posted on “social” networks doesn’t offer any long term value. The engagement rates on Facebook and Twitter are terribly low(I manage an account with almost 21k followers) and requires serious effort to gain any traction, whereas blog content I published almost a year ago continues to generate traffic.

Long live the blog!