Is Social Networking Beneficial to Blogging?

What is Social Networking? Simply put, it is a human interaction through the use of technology (blogging). People with same interest group together and talk about things and exchanging blogsites. Is it beneficial?

The answer is in your objective in blogging.

Ask yourself.


Why do you blog? To gain friends? To be famous? Is it just a past-time for you? A place to rant?

Or do you blog with the intention of financial gain? Do you want to make money off your blog?

If you happen to answer YES in the first set of questions, then social networking is for you. Social networking is simply making friends. Blog-hopping, visiting other sites, surfing more to get blogging ideas, commenting, so on so forth. Majority of your time is spent being "social". Sure you can make money, but only minimally.

If your MAIN intention for blogging is to make money, then set your priorities. Lurk less, establish your site(s). Get backlinks (your sites that link to your blog) as much as you can. That's how you rank high on search engines. More backlinks, higher ranking.

To answer the topic question, social networking is only beneficial if you are blogging to make friends. If you blogging to make money, social networking is the least of your concern.