Last week Wayne at Acting Balanced wrote a post pondering some of the things I’ve been thinking about lately. It seems to me that a lot of bloggers take blogging vacation in the summer. This might be because kids are home from school, personal vacations or that it’s just too nice outside to stay inside. Wayne suggested that a lot of formerly personal blogs have “gone pro” and have become more geared toward advertising. In commenting I suggested maybe a lot of personal blogs have jumped ship to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or some simpler less committed form of communication.
I have a Facebook account and I do check it every day because I have friends and relatives who don’t blog and don’t use email anymore. I visit Facebook a couplafew times day to check messages and run through a few the timeline headlines but I still get my occasional “I posted on Facebook, why don’t you know?” I honestly don’t have any problem using whatever means are necessary for communication. I will call if you won’t use any other media but phone calls. I email people who stick to email over social media and I use my Facebook account for people who don’t communicate any other way.
I don’t like to post a lot of things going on in my life on Facebook. To me Facebook “feels” like I’m standing in a warehouse full of people and when I post my status it’s basically yelling information about myself in the hopes that the person across the room will hear it. I’m more comfortable on my blog. That “feels” like I’m sitting in the cushy chair sharing coffee and stories with friends from around the web. Maybe I just have an old-school attitude but I think that’s okay. As long as blogs are still alive I’ll keep blogging.
I think that has a lot to do with my recent bloggers block. I feel like I’ve been going through the motions and not really putting any of me in my blog. There are weeks where the only thing I’ve posted has been memes. That’s taking the easy way out. Maybe I had bloggers block a lot longer than I thought I did. Taking a month off was inevitable.
I’m going to blog more short posts. There will be my formerly usual longer posts too, but I want to recreate my cyber presence. By recreate, I mean redo it like it was when it was more of me. I’m going to limit the number of memes I do and put Nani back into The Chronicles of Nani
I hope my regulars will still stop in for a cup of coffee!
2 comments:
Yeahhhhhh!! Nani, I'll be here with my coffee waiting to hear about your day. It will be a sad day for me if Blogging stops and goes over to Facebook. I don't do Facebook. Yes, I have an account and I use it to keep tabs on family members, etc. But I don't post anything. If one wants to know what Pogo and I are up to they will just have to visit my blog.
You have a great day, hugs, Edna B.
I go through a "cycle" just about every night of reading material. Your blog (as well as Edna's) is in that cycle. While I may not post a comment nightly, I do read the blog nightly. I tried using the facepage but couldn't quite get past some of the intrusiveness of the whole experience. Hence I still have a facepage account. But probably only check in every 3 or 5 weeks or so. And even then, only for about 5 minutes or so. I'm looking forward to sharing cyber coffee with you over your blog.
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