Blogs vs Forum Threads?

**Guest-BGT** · 09-05-2012 08:04 PM

I feel silly asking, but I'd rather ask than just wonder, what's the difference. I mean I see the forums and blogs link up top on the menu, but what's the real difference? Are blgos more tweeterish or facebookish vs specified threads within the forum?

**purplelace70** · 09-05-2012 08:21 PM

Got me? I don't even know what a tweeter is. lol

**Guest-BGT** · 09-05-2012 10:59 PM

Well thanks, at least I feel human now for not "getting-it" either...

**DebbieNTexas** · 11-11-2012 04:38 PM

This is what I know.

The forums are a place where everyone comes to ask questions, share what's going etc. Blogs are more an individual thing. I "plan" to start a blog when I start my journey, getting a surgery date and all. I think of a blog as 1 person writes about how their life is going, kinda like a diary. People then can subscribe to it, read it and comment on. More intimate I think. Hope that helps.

**pieganjane** · 02-14-2013 02:54 PM

I have never read the blogs, only the forums. I like the back and forth conversations.

**Dee Leshuz** · 02-15-2013 08:45 AM

I read both but like the forums better. If it's a slow news day on the forums I hit the blogs, etc.

**luke** · 02-24-2013 05:07 PM

I use my blog to keep a record of what's happening. Blogs are best when used as "stories about me" that are meant to be read by people interested in you.

If you want to know all about my journey? Read my blog.

Forums are like sitting in a room and chatting with people. Asking questions and getting answers. It's more loose and everyone has ownership.

I like to chat in the forums, but when I run across people who I want to know better, I go read their blog (if they have one.)

A blog is like a book. The forum is like a bullettin board.

Hope that helps.

**niamh** · 02-24-2013 06:57 PM

Blogs are a way for a person to journal about themselves. It allows them (and others) to read their story in a chronological way, which isn't easily possible in the same way on the forum.

So the forum is like a bunch of online conversations, blogs are like a bunch of public diaries.

I mostly just post on the forum, but when I am struck by something that feels strongly relevant to my personal journey and/or I want to be able to find it to make reference to it in the future, I put it in my blog.