I have been updating the site with new information and yesterday I was updating the hotlinks section. One of the sub-sections there is where I list websites of my friends and while I was going through the list of friends I realized that only 6 of them have personal websites that are currently live and have content. In 2000-2002 when I last searched this list was a lot longer.
That started me thinking, is having your own site passe? In the late 90’s and early 2000’s a lot of people had their own sites but now most of them are abandoned. Why is that? Is it because most people have moved their online presence to social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook?
Even blogging amongst my friends seems to have gone done. Earlier it seemed like pretty much most of my friends had their own blog but now 90% of them haven’t been updated in years. Why is that? Did they run out of things to say or is updating their status on Facebook serving the same purpose.
What do you think?
– Suramya