It made me think back to why I started blogging in the first place. The answer is simply as a writer it was something that the great THEY said you had to do. I had just come home from a summer in the Bahamas where I'd started a blog with my hubbie that we called Adventures in Life.
It didn't make sense to continue using that blog and so I started Miss Steps and Milestones. It is a rambling hit and miss kind of blog where I post my rants, my quirky observations and things I find out on the webz that amuse me and I hope will amuse you as well.
I suppose the goal of my blog then is simply: To Blog
Jenny also said this:
"For awhile there everybody had a blog, and then there was that rumor going around that blogs were no longer The Thing and everybody went to Facebook, and now I don’t know what the Convention Wisdom is, I just know I like blogs"
I like blogs too. Last summer DH decided to use Facebook to chronicle his adventures rather than continue using Adventures in Life. I was not pleased with the results. It was great that the Spot locater automatically posted to Facebook. But the flow of his adventure got lost amid the Farmville requests and the other random babbling of the people I know.
I'm not a fan of Facebook, but I can see how it can be used to stay in touch when you don't have a lot to say. Ya know, you want to post a picture of yourself planking, owling, Bradying or whatever the new thing of the day is. Awesome. Cool Dude. Thumbs up.
I like blogs because they are an in depth look at what the blogger wanted to share about themselves and it doesn't get lost in the busy chitter chater of Facebook.
Someday WHEN I have a book that is being published I'll probably start a new blog that can promote my book and do all the things that a well behaved blog should be brought up to do... but for now it is simply the random stuff that makes up my life.
Well, that went on and on....
Why do you blog?
Planking
Owling
Bradying
I blog because I can never shut off my head entirely. If I stopped blogging now I would just implode and since I'm a hefty gal...that would be a big mess
ReplyDeleteDo not want you to implode. I would much rather read. ;)
DeleteThe closest I will come to planking is when I'm stiff as a board and six feet under.
ReplyDeleteWhy do I blog? Because my husband is practically stone deaf and I have no one to talk to.
ahahah I know, the crazy things people do. It amazes me.
DeleteMy reply button is working today. This is nice. Generally I have to just do a regular comment to reply. I like it!!
ReplyDeleteI love these new Reply buttons!
DeleteI blog because, like those above (and below me, wave wave: hi, Mabel) I have shit to say. And if I did not, only Dan would hear it, and he needs to leave for work sometimes.
(Oh yeah, and I do have it for my "business" too.)
Unlike some though, I do NOT censor well. Or, perhaps, ever.
Also, not a fan of FB either. I read all of the Adventures In Life archives when I first found you here, and I missed being able to see that this year.
I know it was sad. I can go back and look at the time we spent and laugh all over again. DH's summer is lost in the bowels of FB never to be seen again.
DeleteOh I want to do Bradying! lol!
ReplyDeleteI started to blog cause I have the need to write A LOT. I have a nonfiction and a fiction side--the blogging fulfills the nf side of me.
I do leave a lot of stuff unposted, though, as Crusie mentioned. I'll get very excited and need to write about something. Then I save it, look at the next day and think--wth no one wants to read about Rodgers and Hammerstein!
I left you a reply on the last post.
DeleteI think that if it is important to you then what is the harm in sharing. If it is not something that someone is interested in, they just won't read it that day.
DeleteI have read about so many interesting things, that I would not have ventured out on my own to find. Just wouldn't have thought of it, but because someone talked about it on their blog it sparked my interest.
What, no Tebowing?
ReplyDeleteI blog to guilt myself into doing what I need to do. No one here will hold me accountable (sometimes myself included), so I post stuff to the blog where people will, theoretically, yell at me if I don't finish. Of course, no one ever has. Why do you people all have to be so nice all the time? ;)
I added Tebowing to today's blog just for you.
DeleteI suspect if you want people to be candid and you flat out asked them to be they would. You could start a Thirty Lash Thursday if you don't comply with your goals for that week. ;)
But unless you ask it seems that the people we seek out are those that want to support and uplift others.
:) I have asked. It doesn't work. Where's a blog troll when you need one. ;)
DeleteI don't know why I blog anymore. Sometimes I get bored with trying to find something interesting to write and I think about quitting or at least taking an extended vacation but then I start missing my blogging buddies and I post again.
ReplyDeleteI know I went through withdrawls over my summer vacation when I couldn't check in daily and when I could check in the connection was so tenuous that if I got one blog read I was happy. Oh dear, blogging as an addiction? Hadn't thought of that. Hope there are no Bloggers Annoymous as I enjoy the community of bloggers in my universe.
DeleteI blog to blog too. Okay, that looks kind of funny, but still true. Sometimes it's stuff I've benn thinking about and have no one that really wants to listen to it all, sometimes it's something interesting that I think others might be interested in, and it's a little bit of self-discipline as well. I do like reading blogs like this because you just never know what interesting things people will say that I never though of before.
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