The death of blogs

It's a bit sad how blogs all of a sudden are all a bit uncool. The long-form communication tool has gone away, replaced by the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
It's been a long trend, casualisation of communications such as email (those funny address lines you learn put on the upper right of snail-mail letters seem so quaint nowadays). What I worry about is how it will affect the way we think.
I believe the quick, cliche-driven mass communication that has been forced on us by the social media forces us to think like tabloid subeditors, sacrificing deep and informed opinion into something that looks good in 140 characters or less.
Don't get me wrong, there is still a place for the art of compressed thought, I have a Twitter account myself and use it reasonably often. It its truly an art getting within that limit. But to live a life where all thoughts subconsciously get compressed into some short status update strikes me a little restrictive, like trying to volunteer not to use the letter E on a sentence filled with then
Well, I guess I've had some responsibility for this slide, having not posted anything I on the blog for a while. But hey, you gotta start somewhere!