Blogging - the best social networking platform?

My friend Dave Bonta recently said (in the wake of the google+ pseudonym fiasco) if blogging wasn't already the best distributed social network out there before all these closed newfangled social networks came up, and it got me to thinking - why not try to use this blog a bit more frequently?

So here's to see if I can use this blog and how much inconvenient it is when compared to posting at a site like facebook or google+