The Bloggers With The Most To Say
What's the average lifespan of a 20sb blog?
It seems that a good 90% of the people I met through 20sb (who'd started blogging around the same time as me) have either abandoned their blogs entirely or post once every two or three months. I definitely went through a dry spell and am just now getting back to posting more frequently but not seeing any new posts from my old time friends got me wondering about the average lifespan of a blog.
Do most 20-somethings start blogging during turning points in their lives or maybe periods of intense boredom, so once all that's behind them, they stop posting? If that's the case, is an abandoned blog sort of a good thing-- perhaps, signifying that the writer has made some kind of breakthrough or that their offline life is becoming more fulfilling?
How long have you been blogging? Was there a moment when you considered calling it quits?
Have you ever gone on a kind of blogging hiatus?
Do you think that you'll still be blogging a year from now?
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Permalink Reply by Remy on -
I've been blogging since my Freshman year of HS. (When LJ was all the rage n' shit)
I've had hiatuses to clear my head or when I knew I couldn't find the time to blog (i.e: vacation.)
Sure I'll be blogging a year from now. I actually want to keep blogging as a way to document my life, even if some posts are pointless, at least I can look back at those ones and say, "Ha, I must of been bored as hell that day."
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Permalink Reply by Amber on -
Personal blogs are probably easier and ultimately maybe even more fun to maintain over a long period of time for that very reason--they document what you were going through at a certain moment in time and that can be funny/enlightening/interesting, etc. I could see losing interest in a themed blog.
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Permalink Reply by Sandy on -
I'm totally glad to see another LJ throwbacker. I definitely started there in 8th grade. I want to punch my old LJ self, no lie.
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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Iris on -
Haha! Me too! I had an LJ and I recently re-found it in the depths of the internet.
And holy hell was it full of teenage melancholy.
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Permalink Reply by Karen on -
Ditto on all of this.
I still go back and read my LJ (and DJ when that was cool) from time to time. I was such a liar and an asshole.
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on -
I started blogging about a year and a half ago. I started because I was bored. I was blogging a lot, and I think I'm sort of taking a break now. I post maybe once a week (or less). I'm okay with that because frankly, I have nothing to say. I think it's clear when you compare some of my posts from this time last year and these past few months. I'm sort of forcing it and it isn't very good.
I hope I'm blogging a year from now. I really do enjoy it when I have something to say. Not to mention, I've met a lot of great people through blogging. I hate the idea of that fading away.
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Permalink Reply by Amber on
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I didn't think that it would be as sad as it was to see some of the friends I've made through blogging fade away.
But yeah, I guess once you've started forcing yourself to blog, it's probably time to take a break. Whether that means cutting back or quitting altogether. Blogging should be fun or cathartic or whatever.
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Permalink Reply by cooper on -
I've been blogging since my freshmen year of college and that doesn't include the high- school live and dead journals.
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Permalink Reply by Amber on
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You've been blogging since your freshmen year of college on the blog that you have now? Have you taken any long breaks or has your posting been pretty consistent?
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Permalink Reply by cooper on
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I post a lot less now than when I was in college and even grad school. It is the same blog except it started out on blogger and was transferred to self hosted n 2006. No extended breaks. I became rather fond of my blog, but I started out wanting to post about things people my age were not i interested in, politics, The Pope, and so on. I started reading blogs of people who were very unlike me and that is what I loved about blogging. I loved finding a 78 year old poet, a creative muse from Singapore who worked in the business sector but was a genius with prose, and a million others.
I have always blogged for catharsis though, my life has always been offline and except for a few times when I met people in NY or DC early on, I kind of keep it separate from my working living life so keeping it going is not really an issue.
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Permalink Reply by Jason Simone on -
I've been blogging sporadically since 2006. I gone through dry spells as well. But now that I'm considering writing as something that I actually want to do, I've been updating more. Even in my "dry spells" of not posting on my blog I was still writing offline. I guess sometimes I just don't want to post everything for the world to see. I think a lot of people feel the same way after a while.
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