Social Media Has Sapped Wil Wheaton's Urge to Blog

When Wil Wheaton’s acting career dried up nearly a decade ago, he turned to the newly emerging blogosphere as his new creative outlet–rapidly becoming one of the web’s first celebrity bloggers. Wheaton wrote every day, and was so successful he eventually became a fulltime writer–not only maintaining a successful daily blog, but penning multiple memoirs and other works. But now, he says, advances in social media have largely drained his desire to keep going.