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Blogging Forever
Sometimes when I think about blogging I get sort of depressed. I mean, am I going to blog for the rest of my life?
Yes - well that's a little depressing.
No - well why no? I like to blog.
Etc.
I joined 20sb with a batch of people and lots of them have moved on. Lots of them are too busy to blog or found they no longer love it.That makes me sad too.
Have you ever thought about blogging in a long term sense? In 5 years, do you think you'll still be blogging? 10?
Discuss.
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Permalink Reply by Rachel on -
As of now I can see myself blogging through college and maybe right out of college. I have three semesters left of my undergraduate and then 1-2 years of graduate, so I would like to document at least the next 4-5 years. But if you don't have a good amount of hits, comments, likes, followers, etc on your post but you have been blogging for years its kind of a kick to the balls. Some people blog to relieve whatever they feel but some people blog to reach others and if you don't achieve that it sucks. So I think if I don't get a good response to my blog within that amount of time I will probably stop blogging.
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Permalink Reply by Brittany Laccetti on -
I can completely agree with you. When I was in high school I went through a blogging kick. I had about 3 followers after blogging for a couple of years so I just assumed that no one wanted to read what I had to say. So I stopped blogging. Of course, I couldn't stay away because I am doing the same thing years later!
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Permalink Reply by Sweeney on -
I have an admittedly myopic view of my own life, so it's hard for me to really think much about what five years from now looks like, let alone ten.
That said, I think that for as long as I am traveling, the answer will be yes, and I hope that I will be traveling for a long time. I think that the way that I approach blogging will probably change. I think that at different points in my life I will withhold more (or less) and my overall relationship to it will change. Anyway, I think I see this persisting for a while, and it does not make me particularly sad.
The people who fade out of my internet existence bum me out a bit, but there is a short short list of people whose MIA-status actually upsets me. This is how I feel about all friendships -- some last, others don't, and that's just the way it is. The ones worth regretting are those where we both put in the requisite effort to keep that from happening. As for bloggers who I was never actually friends with, but I read their blogs and they just sort of fizzled out -- I feel similarly, even though it not being a friendship inhibits my ability to have done anything to maintain it. Still, there is a friendly feel to reading blogs and I kind of regard lost bloggers (of the non-friend variety) with the same It Was Nice While It Lasted mentality as a lot of other things.
I think I wandered away from your question and into A Place, and I'm not sure when/how/why. Oops.
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on -
This response made me sad. I think because I worry about friendships fading, especially when it comes to internet friends.
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Permalink Reply by Sweeney on
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But the friends that you'd be sad to see fade away are the very ones that you will work the hardest to maintain, right? Or they should be, I guess.
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on
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It's true. I do have to say, I completely agree with everything you said above -- it just makes me sad to actually acknowledge it.
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Permalink Reply by Brittany Laccetti on
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Agreed.
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Permalink Reply by Lozzz123 on -
This is something I hadn't really thought about either, but I do think I would miss some blogging people if I did stop blogging. So I think that would at least keep me reading their stuff if they're still going down the track, even if I no longer want to bother with my own stuff.
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Permalink Reply by Remy on -
I'll keep blogging until I lose interest in it...or I lose access to the internet.
But... I really don't know what I'm doing tomorrow let alone 5 years from now.
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Permalink Reply by Hannah on -
I secretly hope for my blog to become my career, so yes, I think I'll blog for the rest of my life. :)
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Permalink Reply by cooper on -
I've been blogging since November of 2004, and that's if you don't count live journal and blurty form high school. I am much less active now than I was. I'm busier and travel more for work, but I blogged through college, three years of grad school, and two decent jobs on to the very cool job i have now...I've seen people come and go, met several bloggers, got job offers and met like minds from Singapore, Scotland and Boston, and unlike minds as well. I still maintain some sort of email contact with several people I met blogging my very first years.
Many I miss.
Blogging is different now, I'm busy and don't really write like I used to,
but I imagine I'll always have some kid of a blog.
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