Is Blogging Still Relevant in 2023?

I'm writing this in February 2023 and my take is: Yes, I think it's still relevant.

I did a quick search on Google and I found that there's a lot of people think the same way. You can read about it here on Google. I agree with most of them, people still read blogs, blogs allow us to dig deeper into a subject, blog can provide more detailed information, and so on.

I just started this blog, not long ago. I haven't put anything much on it. I haven't even decided my niche yet. Probably for now, I'd just throw anything here. I had some blogs a while ago which I abandoned.

And, English is not my primary language, so please excuse my crappy writings.

With the rise of rich social media, many people decide to turn to video. Then, why on earth am I starting a blog? Why not videos?

Well, first, I feel publishing videos would be a lot of work. I can record videos, make animations, or compile some stock videos. I know how to edit videos. I wasn't bad on this thing at all. 

But, I think, it still will have to start with writing. I may have to write the scripts for my videos first. I may have to plan my contents and then work on it. So, I thought, if I have to write anyway, I better start publishing it immediately. How? Blog it.

Then, will I make videos, when? My simple answer is, when I'm ready. Because it entails a lot of work.

But, then I question myself, do I really need to turn to videos? Well, I don't think so. I may going to stick to writing. I may stay blogging.

I believe, I won't need to make my own videos. With the progress of AI today, I believe that this thing would soon be able to help me. I believe AI will be able take care of it, soon. Check out Bard and ChatGPT and see their progress. Or, have a google search on AI Video Generators, there are quite a number of them.

We know today there are tools that will read out things for you. Be it books, news, websites, anything with text on it, we already have tools to read em for you.

I believe that soon, AI can also read and visualize streams of text on your screen. AI can automatically transform my blog, into videos.

And I also believe that AI may also be able to present unique visualizations to each audience. This will bring back the joy of reading, where we would try to visualize what we read, in our mind. Each person may have different visualizations in their heads about the same thing that they read.

With that in my mind, I strongly feel that blog is still relevant. It will continue to grow, evolve, and get even better. I think, many would even come back to blogging. For audience that prefer video, they can watch AI generated videos which will produce a unique visualizations that suit the audience. Others who prefer reading, can keep on doing what they like to do, reading.

That's just my opinion. I can be wrong. May be I'm just too lazy to make videos. Let's just wait and see.

Please share your thoughts in the comment section. 

GBU.