On: 2013 will see a shift from social networks back to...

[arthulia]

Aren't social networks just sort of like... blog networks?

[guscost → arthulia]

More like sharecropping networks.

[sliverstorm → arthulia]

Sort of. But one nice thing about blogs; "social networks" seem to encourage extremely brief snippets. While blogs are not the champion of long-form high quality content, they tend to be a step above social networks in terms of written content IMO.