Blogged Out
Posted: November 1st, 2008 | Author: Bea | Filed under: Weblog | 6 Comments »It sure has been a long time. I started blogging when the blogosphere was in the early phases of its evolution. I think I’ve seen it all, or almost. A blog can be fun, or it can be a real pain the butt. But I’ve enjoyed it most of the time. And for the last 2 years I’ve been blogging every single month (with nothing really interesting to say, if I may add).
And then every day when I open my browser, my website is the homepage so I get to see this weblog as a reminder to post, darn it, post! And I stare blankly at the screen thinking “What do I have to say that will catch people’s attention?” –Nothing. Have I become too lazy to discuss what really matters to me? Not really. I think I just lost my audience; and that is my fault.
Truth is I don’t even read many other blogs anymore. I just go quickly through my Google reader, check that everyone is alive and kicking, but I don’t pay attention to what they are saying. Yeah, that is horrible of me… How selfish! But then again, I’m not craving the attention either.
And here I am wondering if I have burnt all the bridges. This blog isn’t even an emotional outlet anymore; thankfully because my issues are either solved (Hah! Yeah, right…) or because I have other means of expression. I feel like my opinionated days are somewhat over. Not because I don’t have an opinion, but because I don’t feel the need to say something when I’m not asked to. That sounds kind bland, doesn’t it? But that’s the way I feel.
Maybe I’m too busy, or maybe it’s been long enough since I started blogging. And the word “Retirement” sounds good right now. But I know I won’t do it, mostly because this is a habit, and old habits die hard.
I haven’t been blogging as long as you have, but it’s been enough to get to the blog burnout stage. There’s nothing wrong with shifting your online communication mode. So far I’m planning on keeping my main blog but I’m thinking of letting my secondary one go.
It is hard to post when you feel like it is a chore. When you don’t feel excited or angry,or are laughing your ass off and want to share yo just go “ehh” and move on. At least I do.
If you aren’t getting anything outa blogging, quit. The people you are closest with will find other ways to keep in touch (as for me, I’ll bother your Hubby for updates). But until you say you are retiring, I’ll keep checking in!
You still have some of us as an audience :) Like Nuke, I’ll keep checking in.
I blame twitter and facebook… the web 2.0 is killing the traditional blog in a sense…
I think you should continue posting, I am sure soon you will find something to post about, trust me it really creeps up.
What you write is interesting to many, it was always interesting to me, even when I did not agree. Its fun to know you are going to express an idea on a post rather than when we talk about it because many times reading it is fun, to see how you expand on it.
I will always be in debt to your blog because that is how I met you and retiring it would feel like the cafe where used to hang out when we first met was closing its doors… however, that does sometimes happen in real life.
Does it make me any less manly to say you and Log are the sweetest couple I know?
keep it up when you want to.
I use my blog as a reminder for me when I want to read about events in my life how I felt about them at the time. Who cares who reads it.