Webpages are dead.

Over the past few years, the typical personal webpage has been extinct. Many years ago, people had pages about their families, hobbies, or themselves. They’d post pictures or stories, perhaps links of interest. The way of the past is dead, and has been for a while. The huge success of social networking pages has grown so big, that it has made the personal website a bit obsolete.

Why update photos and stories on a webpage when you can just update the “What are you doing?” line in Facebook? Those sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo all have those features of status or mood updates. They also have plenty of space for your photos. Facebook even has a built in IM client so LiveIM, Yahoo, and other IM clients aren’t as needed either. All your “social networking friends” pop on and off on Facebook, for example, so there is no need for a separate IM client. Why install them (especially with the size Windows LiveIM takes up).

I still run a webpage because I love having my own domain name and control over look and layouts. I’ve been doing websites since the mid 90’s, it’s just fun to do. Though if you look at it, webpages aren’t webpages – everything is a blog webpage now (mine included). You can do all the personal webpage things you want in a blog, so why not have the blog I suppose? So are personal webpages dead? In a way.. but there’s still a handful that will still continue and enjoy doing them.