Is Blogging the same as Facebook?

When one thinks of putting their opinions and feeling on the web, they assume you mean Facebook or MySpace. However, no one ever mentions a Blog. A blog is a more formal way for one to express themselves. A blog very rarely uses slang words. In Facebook and Myspace, the writing is often in code or slang.

Both Blogs and social networks allow one to upload videos, music and photos. They both are used to collaborate and to form a network of communication.

Blogs are used to help keep one informed on education, job and hobbies. Blogs are more in depth than the postings on social networks. They go into more detail. They can give specific instructions on how to do something, like setting up a blog.

Here is a quote I came across that I think is the real definition of a blog.

For centuries, writers have experimented with forms that evoke the imperfection of thought, the inconstancy of human affairs, and the chastening passage of time. But as blogging evolves as a literary form, it is generating a new and quintessentially postmodern idiom that’s enabling writers to express themselves in ways that have never been seen or understood before. Its truths are provisional, and its ethos collective and messy. Yet the interaction it enables between writer and reader is unprecedented, visceral, and sometimes brutal. And make no mistake: it heralds a golden era for journalism.
by Andrew Sullivan