One major thing that has caught my eye (and thoughts) in the past 10 years on the internet is the direction it appears to be going. It used to be the way to keep people informed about news and events was through BBS boards that you would dial into and read a list of posted items (much like a web forum). Then the next big thing to communicate online with other people was IRC channels. You could log into a server, type in /join <channel> and chat away in real time with friends and family (and anyone pretty much who cared to join the chat room). AOL and Yahoo then stepped in and created a web based / software based Chat Rooms which enabled non tech savy individuals to share the fun.

Then the internet exploded with new methods on communicating with people. Mind you now, the internet was developed originally to share data and information between colleges and military bases. Around this period the internet took people by storm, there was no restriction on who could provide content and there was no restriction on what method they used. News groups, Web Forums, Web Blogs, LiveJournal (DeadJournal and other variants), Email, and other methods of communication. There was only one problem to these methods, it took time to write content. It took time to make sure that it was what you wanted to post to the internet. In many cases it also costed money. If you wished to put a blog out there, you would have to pay out a monthly fee to some service who would do it for you.

Then the service provides found ways to make it easier to communicate with these methods. Found ways of posting to the service through your cell phone and ways to post without having to have a complicated login process. The posts then moved away from being well thought out posts that provided information to posts that were short and simple. Posts that stated things like "I went running today". As if it was a major accomplishment that everyone in the whole internet needed to know.

Now you can see another progression away from forums, blogs and service providers to microblogs. Systems such as Twitter, Pwnce and the like. So now they move from a more information post to a less informational more chaotic little blurp about what someone did during their day. Chat being too complex, E-mail doesn't reach everyone on the internet only those who you know, Facebook only reaches people in your "friends list", LiveJournal is pretty much a dead horse after the sale. That leaves only two options, those of us who stick to blogging and those of us who chatter about our daily lives. So I pose the question to people which system do you prefer?

Do you enjoy daily updates (hourly, minute by minute playback) of everyone's activities? or do you prefer blog posts which delve into a deeper part of thought?

I think it's quiet obvious which system I prefer, but I was just wonder what people thought was more important to them.