Thoughts on blogging

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6135OH20100204?type=technologyNews

This is an article that states that students are moving quickly away from blogging for texting and social networking. I can see that social networking provides a vast array of interpersonal interactions that allows us to connect our lives via the web. In a way, social networking is a form of blogging super-sized. Facebook allows us to post ourselves and our thoughts as well as connect blogs easily via pictures instead of links. It seems to me that this vast diversity is more enticing than a standard blog. Some would say that Twitter fits the need of quick and concise communication but what does twitter do that texting and Facebook cannot? It seems that we are in the middle of a cold format war much like blu-ray and hd-dvd but without the media coverage. It seems texting and Facebook will emerge as the winners. Even now I question if what I am devoting time to right now will be remembered or whether it will be condemned to oblivion. Even more, I see that historical data is being replaced by constant streaming of information. Soon, history will be irrelevant except to those who are eccentric. Tech is about to jet us into the future and we are only beginning the journey. How can we prepare students for a future when we are unaware of where this rocket ship to the future is taking us?