How to Create a Blog on Facebook

There are dedicated blogging platforms out there like: wordpress.com, livejournal.com, soulcast.com, weebly.com, and of course the one I am using now, blogger.com.

So why would you want to create a blog inside a social media network?

Dedicated blogging platforms are used if you want to share your thoughts to anybody out there on the web.  Meanwhile, you can use Facebook blogging if there are some thoughts that you only want to share to your friends.

How to Create a Facebook Blog

1. On the top menu you will see Home, Profile, Friends, Inbox. Click on Profile

2. When you are inside Profile you will see the following tabs: Wall, Info, Photos, Links, and then a plus sign.

3. Click on the plus sign.

4. You will be presented with a list. Choose Notes.

After you have added this you will see an additional Notes tab whenever you click on your profile.

You can now start blogging.

What Keeps Readers Returning to Blogs

I read a certain comment on one of the Philippine’s top blog. The person said that he could not figure out why that certain blog was considered the top blog when all the author do was brag about his gadgets, hist trips, and his blogs.

It made me question my own motives why do I keep coming back to certain blogs.

Big Brother is a popular show because it allows viewers to peek into a group of peoples lives. I guess it is the same with blogs. We keep coming back because we just want to find out what the authors are doing. Pretty much like the Big Brother show.

Secondly, certain authors are fond of posting very short entries. Sometimes I too question if they truly provide real value to their readers because the entries are so short that I barely got a hint on what the post was all about.

But, although the authors only provide very little information, and sometimes we would even see certain post as useless information, looking at it deeply we would discover that this style of blogging do offer us certain value.

Short posts taken collectively could give us an idea where our community/society is at.
It can reveal to us what’s in, what’s out, the general aspirations of people, our current issues, and our present concerns.

Just like with news programs, we keep returning to these blogs because we feel a need to know.