Blogging has been around for quite some time at this point, and the huge popularity that it has received is extraordinary. The evolution of blogging has changed what people do and how they do it, as well as the tools that they have available to them today. Right now both microblogging and macroblogging are popular, and sometimes they are treated as separate entities while other times they are used and viewed as two interconnected pieces.

Blogging itself has been around for what's going on 15 years, since the Internet first started to come into individual households and homes. Of course then, it was more known as online diaries and tools were far less sophisticated. The term blog was then coined around 1997, and by 1999 and 2000 blogs were starting to grow into the mainstream.

Popular blogging tools today such as Wordpress, Moveable Type and Blogger are really macroblogging tools. That's because while they can be used for anything, they are designed for and allow you to create long posts, articles, columns or content pieces. There is no limit to the length of the content that you input and publish, which is the opposite of a microblogging tool.

Microblogging is a far newer creation than standard blogging or marcoblogging, but it has exploded in popularity over the last several years. Facebook, which was launched in 2004, has many different features but its status updates are considered a form of microblogging. This really helped to spread the popularity of short, direct, informational posts by individuals and companies to the people who cared about them.

Twitter was then launched in 2006, joining a list of other services such as Tumblr. Twitter of course is designed specifically for microblogging, limiting the posts of users to 140 characters or less. Twitter thrives on short, quick and easy microblogging posts but some users still provide the expanded functionality of a service like Facebook, where microblogging is just a small part of the whole.

The evolution of these services is now leading to the creation of sites and tools that do much more from one space. A site such as Wooxie which was launched recently offers the functionality that you can find in both Twitter and Facebook.

They have a microblogging tool, a macroblogging tool and services to connect you to your other accounts on those sites. Plus you have the ability to create your own profile there and connect with more people, filter out specific kinds of content and even make money from what you produce by using Google Adsense on your pages.

While blogging has been around in some form for over a decade and a half, today it's quite different from when it first started. Microblogging, popularized by Facebook updates and the launch of Twitter in 2006 has changed things dramatically. The next wave of the future seems to be services that combine more tools under one roof, saving time and hassle. So keep your eyes open for sites such as Wooxie that allow this combination of functionality in one platform.