As the development of internet,social media play an important role in people’s daily life.Statistic shows that,As of 2022, the average daily social media usage of internet users worldwide amounted to 147 minutes per day.In this case, can we say that social media have already replaced individual blgging? To some extent,yes,some blogging are been replace,but some of them can’t be replace.Here is why
1.No matter what media you choose.It’s about content.
If you are blogging about your personal life,and share your thoughts and views of life.It’s better to convert to social media.In these case,individual blogging is replaced by social media. It’s meaningless for you to keep on maintaining your personal blog sites. Just give it up and completely embrace social media.
But if you are blogging on some professional niches,share your expertise or technology on some field,you blogging website can’t be replaced. You will have organic traffic from google or other search engine. Blogs or websites on professional niches still be exist even more and more people spend time on social medial, because these blogs and websites have special contents which is not easy to get from social media. And website owner can make money from it, making the positive encouragement for them to continue to maintain and update more contents to their blog and website.
If you are business owner who maintains a blog to drive organic traffic to your ecommerce store, social media can’t replace your blogging. When people is searching something in internet, they always want to read something useful.For example, someone is bothering by his hair problem. He want to find some solution from google and come across your article on how to prevent losing hair in daily life. And in your ecommerce store, you do have some product which can help people to prevent hair losing, there big chance for them to place an order from your ecommerce store. That is why blogging is important for business, and such blogging can’s be replace by social media.
Therefore, whether your blogging been replace by social medial or not,it depends on the contents which you show to your audience.
2.Blogging Website should combine with social media,blogging website is not the opposites to social media.
Blogging have developed a lot than it first been invented. Blogging is not only articles but also be images or videos. However, Your blogging website should linked with social media. Social media such as twitter,instagram,tiktok, youtube are not in the opposite side to blogging website. To the contrary, social media can drive social media traffic to your blogging website. A good blogging website definitely need traffic from all channels, not just get traffic from google.
3.Blogging Website can be your personal brand,same as your social media account.
Brand is very important for both individuals and commerce entities. Blogging website can be best way to create your brand. imagine that if someone want to have a deal with you, they can find your brand on social media but they can’t find your website, probably they won’t trust you so much. Blogging website stands for your brand. No matter you are individual or commerce entities, people will trust you more with your blogging website.
4.Social media account can be suspended by the platform,while blogging doesn’t have such risk.
When you are running social media, you need to follow the policy of the platform, sometimes even you are not breaking the rule of the social media platform, your account can be suspended or your contents can be delete. Even your contents is exist, the platform can make it invisible to your followers by special algorithm.
The suspension of Social media accounts happen from time to time.You don’t even know which policy you violate after you have been suspended. And the social media platform have no right to explain anything to you. They will ruin all your hard working by suspending your account. Therefore, never put all the eggs in one basket. If you have your official blogging website,you control everything. You have the code of the website under control by your hand, you control your domain which is the access to your website. You control your contents which is create by you, nobody can delete it randomly.
5.Blogging Website is much friendly for business,while social media is good for casual life.
As the develop of website technology, blogging website have more interactive features than social media. For example, blogging website have beautiful landing page than social media. Blogging website can have some friendly popups. And you can make an analyze to your visitor by some statistic tool. Therefore, blogging website is much friendly for commerce users.
However,social media is much more popular by individual users who want to show their daily life. For example,gossip and sport topics are much more popular in social medial like twitter,facebook and instagram.
Tiktok and Youtube can also provide very good content to their audience.Many commerce entities are using tiktok and youtube to promote their business.
Conclusion
Social media can’t replace blogging website. Social media will be a very good supplement for blogging website, not only for individual blogging website, but also for commercial entities blogging website. After all, social media and blogging website is just the propaganda tool for us. If you make good use of them, they will help you to get what you want, not only earning money but also increase your social popularity.
If you are starting a new blogging website by wordpress, just don’t worry about the future of website,they won’t be obsoleted.