Tangled in a web of blogs!

First, there was myspace. And for a time, it was good. Then I realized that myspace was mostly tailored for kids who were too young to actually access the site but wanted to because all of their other emo friends were on it and adding Simple Plan to their glorified HTML tables. How could this happen to me, indeed.

Then, there was Facebook, which for the longest time, didn't allow for blog posts, until a little before they started opening up their platform and came up with a little app known as "notes." These were, for all accounts and purposes, blogs. The advantage, however, was that you could tag your friends and let them know that you mentioned them or were thinking of them when you wrote that little "some people who just need to die" post one drunken evening.

Then came Blogger. And at first, it was mostly overlooked. Then they added the ability to include Google ads in your posts, and writing crap about your life became a feasible way to make money. Plus, you could import your blog from Blogger to Myspace through the RSS feed. And so there became a clean way to keep your friends close and your random blog-crawling strangers closer.

Now enter Wordpress: a blog with a number of clean layouts, and traffic viewers (really handy for seeing if anybody really does visit your blog or if you're just writing to a vacuum). It seems to have all of the advantages of Blogger, plus it can be searched on sites like Google and... Sphere? What?

But so comes the incredibly weird series of questions one must ask himself: is this worth the hassle? Is the hassle worth the knowing? Will the knowing possibly make me not want to do this anymore? Will this post upload to Wordpress? Will Facebook then pick up the post off of Wordpress? Will the emo kids ever shake loose of the grasp of Myspace and its stupidly simple design that even one of the many pubescent emo kids on it could have thought up and then created? Should I make that LOLyrics site?

None of these have easy answers. The real irony is that I'm tangling myself in a web of blogs, and that "blog" is a shortening of "web log," which makes redundant my sentence, but nobody would say that it's proper syntax to say "I'm tangling myself up in a blogs," so here we are.