The Irrelivance of Blogs (TLDR)
Why am I writing a blog? Blogs used to be a lot more common, but now they are less so. I imagine people don't want to read blogs anymore because most people today prefer their information in bite-sized, easy to swallow, "fun-size" packets. The following is a hackneyed explanation of what I think is the cause of this. People want their information like they want their fast food, ready to gorge on and consume quickly. Because of the speed at which information is exponentially increasing, most people don't feel that they want to read anything but "fun sized" bites of information. Granted, a lot of people's learning styles are better at receiving their information in "chunking". What is chunking? Chunking allows people to more easily retain the information in short-term memory. It also condenses large bits of information condensed into something entertaining, without depth on context. Then news becomes rumor,and rumor becomes truth. Fun size chun...