Philo posts on FB: During the heyday of blogs, from like 2004 – 2010, we called our happy mass of posts and discussions the Jblogosphere. Blogs are now a faint echo of what they were. So what do we call… this? I mean those of us who are on Facebook and other social media having the same sometimes deep, fascinating, maddening, rewarding, and often silly and ridiculous discussions on Jewish topics?
The JFaceosphere?
The artists formerly knows as JBloggers?
Battlestar Koferica?
The Gideonites?
Not that it really needs a name…
Mark Pelta: “A once flourishing kingdom of blogs has fallen. Now those once seeking knowledge have become entrenched in their competing ways and new similarly ideological competitors have arisen. Those searching for information using Google Search powers cannot find as the Facebook Imperial Nation tightly enforces the borders of each kingdom via “Friends” lists. New ideas are rare as each man simply repeats his agenda and proceeds to wage war with low level trolls who come in with their tired narishkeit. I’m going with The Dark Ages.”
Luke: When a blog exposes things you’d prefer to keep hidden, just call it reality.
