There appears to be plenty of overlap between what you would possibly placed on Facebook versus what you would possibly put in a weblog. They can each be private. They can each comprise your private experiences and concepts, what you’re doing and what you have an interest in. In different phrases, they’ll each be like journals or diaries.
There are some apparent variations within the goal behind every exercise, nevertheless. Facebook is extra interactive and the viewers is, properly, your pals. With a weblog, the Web world is your potential viewers, and your Facebook mates could by no means even find out about or learn your weblog. Your weblog will be interactive as properly, as readers can remark in your posts and you may reply. But once more, this interplay would in all probability be between you and a stranger reasonably than a good friend. So there are, or will be, two distinct audiences.
There could also be issues that you’d share with your pals on Facebook that you simply would not need your weblog viewers to know. On the opposite hand, you could have ideas or experiences that you’re extra comfy sharing with strangers in your weblog than you’ll be sharing it along with your Facebook mates.
Finally, your weblog ought to have a theme, a goal. People ought to have a particular motive for wanting to go to and browse your weblog, whether or not it is informational, opinion, or selling enterprise. Your Facebook posts will be random, mundane, spontaneous, it does not actually matter since you aren’t making an attempt to draw an viewers – you’re interacting with mates. So whereas there’s the potential for overlap between Facebooking and running a blog, it might be finest to attract boundaries and let your viewers be your viewers and let your pals be your pals.