Comments on: Well, Why The Fuck Indeed?

By: Mike Haddad

Mike Haddad — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:51:25 +0000

I can still remember the transition I made when I stopped blogging. It went something along the lines of “I have nothing interesting to say” to “I have nothing that isn’t embarrassing to say” to “facebook does a better job of sharing information while requiring minimal thought and effort, while reaching a wider audienece.”

I can also clearly remember the moment I stopped following most other personal blogs unless I had a connection to them. (I count admiring your sweet rack as connection). It was about that time everyone was ripping on justified font, as if two years of community college or high school or whatever put you in a legitimate position to talk about design, and you weren’t just copying whatever jemjabella had said. I’m talking probably before myspace got big. Someone posted some nonsense using font doctored to prove the point and my response was “I challenge you to reproduce that on a real wesbite”. Suffice to say the post was taken down.

And that’s how Mike began his life as a bitter old man.

By: Felisa

Felisa — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:45:32 +0000

*applause*
I don’t really have much else to add. I’ve been blogging since I’m 13. I can say I want to stop for reasons x, y and z but I know I really can’t…

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:52 +0000

Meh, I’ve been blogging nearly half my life now. I can’t abandon it at this point! There’s a bit of selfishness to most blogging, but we as humans just adore reading about other people’s lives. It makes blogging a very interesting phenomenon!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:47 +0000

Ehhh, I’ve been blogging since I was maybe 13-14, but even then, I’ve always been very careful about the information that I put up about myself (i.e. real name, no last name, no birthdate, no city, etc.). I mean, there are ways to be careful about blogging about yourself and there are ways to be careful about blogging about work (i.e. not using the real name of the company, not using real names of managers, bosses, fellow colleagues, etc.). I like my pseudo-anonymity though, you know? I don’t need everyone online to know exactly what I look like and everything else about my life. But I like the audience… Funny thing is, I’m terribly shy when it comes to meeting new people in real life.

By: Annika

Annika — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:15:11 +0000

I couldn’t have worded this better myself, if I tried.

This is exactly the reasons why I came back to blogging.

I stopped blogging for a few years, and came back in January 2010. I felt like no one gave a shit. But I said “If I keep writing, if I write meaningfully, even if it’s about a stupid topic, someone out there will read it”.

This is why I don’t want to stop blogging. Because someone out there, even if they don’t comment, they give enough of a shit to visit my blog every day.

And I am thankful, every day, for still being here. Years ago, when I first started blogging, I wouldn’t be here today living and breathing, if it weren’t for “internet people” caring.

So, thanks to you kind strangers. For taking part in random blogs, and actually caring.

I really want to thank you for posting this post, too. Because honestly, it couldn’t have been written better.

By: monkee

monkee — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:44:43 +0000

Hehe Amanda, you should become a motivational speaker. Oh my god, then you’ll become famous and travel all around the world collecting frequent flyer points.
I gave up caring if people read my blog or not, I prefer reading about other people’s lives…so much more interesting :).

I wanna be the first person to thank you for blogging.

By: Macca

Macca — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:03:08 +0000

I am a web developer and my boss and co-workers know about all of my websites. It’s pretty easy to trace me, and I’ve given up trying to hide. The problem is, because I know that some people in particular are potentially watching my every move online, I do stifle my thoughts.

I don’t post exactly what I truly believe all of the time because some things I just don’t want some people to know. Some things I don’t tell my mum, some things I don’t tell my boyfriend, some things I don’t tell my IRL friends, some things I don’t tell people on warcraft, some things I don’t tell people I don’t know. I know the audience of my blog includes certain people, so I tailor my blog entries in such a way that they won’t read what I don’t want them to hear.

It’s a pretty simple concept. I don’t get annoyed that people find out things I don’t want them to know. I don’t get fired because my boss didn’t hear about what I got up to last weekend. Everyone’s happy. But is my blogging pointless if I can’t express my innermost thoughts without shrinking into anonymity? Yeah, maybe.

By: Manda

Manda — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:04:58 +0000

I can’t see myself ever giving up blogging either. Blogging less frequently, yes – undoubtedly, that’ll happen next school year. But as for giving it up altogether, that’s really not in the cards for me because I like blogging. I like having an outlet, I like rambling about things that I’m surprised people care about, and I like writing. I’m not silly enough to write something that would jeopardize my future career, so I’ve got that covered ;)

By: Aisling

Aisling — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:50:57 +0000

Yeah, I don’t think I’d be able to give up blogging, until the point where I just become too busy for it (I kind of figured I would have reached that point by now…but I guess not.). I suppose for what I’m trying to get into (new media), it’s probably a GOOD thing to be all over the Internet and have a strong presence. And I have been pretty good at keeping crap off the Internet, and if someone does drag something up from when I was 16, I can easily say “Uhh… I was 16!” But I think it makes for an interesting conversation to see why so many people are leaving personal blogging and falling more into a niche. I don’t have any one topic that I am interested in that hasn’t been talked about to death, so I prefer the variety, I guess.

By: Caity

Caity — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:03:54 +0000

Amen, sister. I don’t think I’ll give it up either. I keep on chugging and I’ll keep on reading your blog for however long you write too which is hopefully forever. :)