Again, this also first appeared on Facebook, I've clearly changed my mind enough on blogs to write this one.
I'm realizing that I already am a blogger practically with what I've done on Facebook. However, I have some serious problems with blogs generally. I hardly every read them, so maybe I can't judge them. Still, it seems that blogs have several defects.

1. If a blog is written and no one is around to hear it, is it worth anything? My earlier attempt at a blog, called "The Pounder" hardly got any views. Or at least none that I could see, and no one commented. I guess that last part might have been a good thing, see below.

2. You can write complete lies on a blog, and no one will catch you for it, unless you do. For example, on "The Pounder," I once wrote "'The Simpsons' is coming to an end, but we still have 'Futurama.' " Both of those statements were completely false at the time (Futurama had been cancelled and was exclusively re-runs). No one corrected me for either of them. I think this shows how much I suck as my own fact checker.

3. I've hardly ever seen an interview on a blog. It seems that bloggers mostly talk to themselves.

4. You don't get paid for any of the work you do. At least not starting out.

5. The debates I've seen with Facebook notes have been refreshing but the debates I've seen between trolls on news, video, and blog sites are as unoriginal as they are angry. Right before I left Mexico, I looked at how the border/immigration debate was going. Every argument was either one of the following:

a. We're under illegal invasion!!

b. We are a nation of immigrants.

Both arguments are pretty stale, and neither one really discusses currency rates, corn subsidies, factories moving from Mexico to Thailand and China, or even the personal stories of actual migrants or people who might lose jobs to them. So you only get your opinion confirmed and don't learn anything else. One reason is lack of decent research. The other is 6.

6. Who writes blogs? Usually people with spare time, who aren't worried about the boss reading them. In other words, exactly the people we don't need to hear from, because they're doing pretty well. The working class of all races is pretty underrepresented, and unemployed people even more so. The blogosphere is a joke compared to the ground.

7. The biggest achievement of the blogosphere to date, according to a source that I will leave uncited was reposting a bunch of cartoons about mohammed that were neither funny nor thought-provoking, and had already been printed by a newspaper in Denmark.