Blogs, Vlogs, Podcasts and Videos

 This week we're learning about a few other channels than our original social media, and were focusing on blogs, vlogs, and podcasts! When I first think about blogs, I think of a mid-2000s soccer mom who has a large following and talks about her home life, to me, blogging seems so outdated when we have apps like Twitter, Facebook, and some others.  

Vlogs are also a thing of the past for modern media, there was a strange period in the early 2010s when it felt like everyone on the YouTube platform was creating vlogs of their daily life, but as far as I'm aware, there aren't many creators who actually go along with vlogs anymore.

Podcasts, however, have actually increased in popularity in the past few years, there's been a few that have grown more than others, like The Joe Rogan PodCast, The Pat McPhee Show, and quite a few True Crime Podcasts. I'm actually someone who listens to podcasts pretty often, especially on longer drives back and from university and home. 

I think it's kind of weird how podcasts have exploded in the past few years, but at the same time it makes total sense why vlogs and blogs have almost vanished from the public eye, most people, if you asked them wouldn't know what the site Blogger is. I did not before the semester, this shows the public awareness of blogs especially.