A Blog About Blogging…
Wednesday, Feb 25, 2009, 1:12 am | In ContentIt started with a Facebook status conversation with my good friend Katy… and ended up with an examination of the past six years of my life.
You see, I used to use a little blog site called Xanga. I eventually “matured” to the use of Livejournal, before moving on to Vox, then Tumblr, then finally Wordpress for my own website, which is where I am today. Going back and reading blog posts from 2003 was a little surreal. I felt like I was reading a diary I had written when I was 11.
Xanga Post Thurs. 01.06.05
In a way, the past six years of my life is all online. I have the ability to look back and read my thoughts from a particular day, and most of the things I blogged about I wouldn’t have even remembered had it not been for the blog itself.
I Wouldn't Have Remembered This.
To see the different stages of my life just sitting there on the Internet, for all to see… well, it was a little frightening. With the amount of people who use the Internet every day, I wonder how many people actually read one post? Three posts? Every blog post I’d ever written?
Vanity.
And on one level, I wonder what those people thought about the blog posts. About me, for that matter. Did they read it and think I was a total theatre geek? A vain human being? A spaz with very poor typing skills? What point in my life were these people reading from? And were their assumptions about me valid from just one post?
So I figured, “Well, I could just delete all these old posts from sites I never use anymore. Or just delete the ones that make me sound _______” (insert adjective here). But what would be the good in that? I mean, I still blog. Six years from now, will I want to delete this blog post?
On the other hand, the ability to share my thoughts with a very large amount of people is exhilarating. You blog, and it’s available to read whenever you’d like, for as long as you’d like, by people all over the world. It’s about sharing. Conversing. Debating. And If I really cared who was reading what I wrote, I wouldn’t be as “into” social media as I am? Would I really want to give up all the fun of blogging just because I’ve changed over the past six years?
First. Blog Post. Ever.
I don’t think so.
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Is this self-consciousness or regret? I say regret, because you seem upset with yourself for being less experienced than you are now, which was out of your control anyway. What was it that your friend said that caused you to dig up your past and critique yourself? ^_^
Comment by Joseph — March 17th, 2009 at 7:13 pm #