It’s First Wednesday again, so we’ll have an Insecure Writers Support Group post. This month’s question: How long have you been blogging? (Or on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram?) What do you like about it and how has it changed?
I’ve been blogging since around 2004, when LiveJournal was popular. I didn’t post daily, but I was fairly regular. I still post there, even though almost nobody else uses the site. I got my own domain in 2013 and have been blogging there ever since, once a week.
I like blogging because it’s alike a cross between a diary, a journal, and a newspaper. Of course, you have no real idea how many people are reading your news, or who they may be, but it’s fun to imagine that you’re super-popular and read by multitudes. I enjoy putting my thoughts down for posterity, whether or not anyone is actually reading at the time. I figure some future cyber-archaeologist might discover my blogs and publish them in a history text somewhere.
I also do post (infrequently) on Facebook, though I tend to “share” more than I post. I’m not as good at making images as some of those folks, so it’s easier to just pass their work along. I’m daily on Twitter, but it’s just a brief writing prompt. Not a big Instagrammer. I just don’t have that many images to share…
I think blogging has changed since I started, when it was fairly unusual to have a blog unless you had some sort of tie-in, like a nonfiction book, TV or radio show, or magazine or newspaper. Now literally everybody posts their lives online for others to examine and pay attention to. You’d think they’d be a little more protective of their privacy but most people don’t seem to have any sense of danger about sharing private information willy-nilly. I’m still a fairly private person, even when I do blog about personal things. I just say I live in Upstate South Carolina, which is a big area, or I give vague facts instead of specifics.
What about you?
