It's very easy to turn your back on blogging and walk away from it, forever. Blogs were a great idea when you first started to write them, but they seem less relevent now there are more interesting things to do. Real-life has caught up with having to write about yourself, to actually living a life. And guess what? The blogger that hasn't posted in 7 years won't be coming back He's long gone..
Seven years is a long time to wait for someone. i realise that, but he's probably just working on a new post. It's difficult to do at times. It'll be worth reading when he's finished it though. He won't have left the internet. He's probably a father right now and'll be back when he's put his kid through university or got his kid married off. Twenty years isn't a long time to wait. I bet he's got some great blogposts lined up. Can't wait to read them.
Twenty five years have passed and he still hasn't posted, but maybe he will tomorrow. That bloody Treey talks Jack Shit. It's a good job he doesn't know about the mobility scooter i've got Thirty years since he last posted and he's probably a grandad now. Maybe he isn't coming back. thirty fucking years! I've waited for him to post something..
The future of blogging depends on the bloggers, i suppose. There's a lot of things that can happen. You can learn something from the best blogs. They can inspire you and very often they do. They also give you something you just can't get from a book. Well i don't know about that last bit. If a book left an email address i'd normally write to them...
Me before the beard.....
I think the future of blogging is a very individual thing, My largely introverted and sometimes housebound self hopes it stays though.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I have learnt and continue to learn from blogs and bloggers. And books.
My next-door neighbour and I were great friends UNTIL she found out I wanted to leave the EU. It got worse when she found out I didn't hate Donald Trump the way she did. Overnight, I became publi enemy number one. It's the same with blogging. Most people follow the herd ad and free speech is frowned upon.
ReplyDeleteBeing disabled is not why people ignore me it is because I am different to the them politically.
I would have stayed in the EU and would not support Trump. Which are my decisions. Not being the Pope I don't claim to be infallible, which both means that I might be wrong and that other people are entitled to their decisions.
DeleteYou're entitled to have your own opinion.
DeleteSometimes I worry that Blogger (by Google) will one day have the plug pulled on it. Then these years of blogging will simply disappear. It could happen. This is what they did to the photo-sharing site "Panoramio" to which I had contributed over a thousand pictures. Over night they were all gone and every picture had been carefully ge0-located - not just by me but by thousands of other contributors around the world.
ReplyDeleteOne nice thing about blogging is that you can say pretty much anything you want to and get it published at the click of a button.
That worries me too. I hate to think that google can do that. Some people have done it for years.
DeleteGoogle does own our blogs and will possibly pull the plug . Maybe we all should buy our own domain name and own our own blogs, I'm pretty sure it could be transferred across.
DeleteAcross to where?
DeleteTo a privately owned blog
DeleteOk, thanks.
DeleteI find that a lot of people stop blogging. Blogging is a lot of work. After a while some people gets tired of the social media. I also get tired of social media at time.
ReplyDeleteI would have stayed in the EU and my late daughter Nicole voted to stay in the EU.
Frankly I do not like Thrump 's moral code of conduct and I certainly would not have voted for him if I had to vote. He didn't get rich by caring for people.
Blogging is definitely a lot of work.
DeleteHi Julia, I just wanted to say that I notice that when I started posting things on Facebook and Instagram I quit blogging as much. I'm trying to come back to it, but that may be why so many people blog less or quit altogether. Just my 2cents :)
DeleteFacebook may be the reason less people blog nowadays.
DeleteHi Terry :) I started blogging back in 2007-ish. I took a very long hiatus from 2010 until just this February. I was going through a phase where I didn't want any part of my life online. I'm having fun with it again though. I enjoy the interaction with people and it kind of becomes a journal and a spot to document my life I suppose. Every week though, I export a copy of my blogs "just in case". I'm not sure how it would work, but I guess if Google does pull the plug on Blogger, at least I'll have my blog in whatever form it saves in, just in case I want to build my own website. I already have my domain names, so I'll keep on using Blogger until I can't anymore! PS, I like the photo without the beard!!! :)
ReplyDeleteHi Rain, so many people have left Blogger recently that I wondered if it has a future or not. It'll be a shame to see it go. You have really well with your site and so have others.
DeleteI really enjoy blogging and I've met many interesting people online from different part of the world over the years. I hope blogging is around for a long time to come but you just never know1
ReplyDeleteI hope it stays, Martha.ifind it easier to cope with my disability.
DeleteI've been blogging for 12 years. It's changed quite a lot in that time. Some of the blogs I used to visit are gone but a lot of others have popped up.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been around that long. It's been enjoyable though.
ReplyDeleteI love blogging. Sometimes I skip a few days when I don't have anything to say.
ReplyDeleteI hope blogger stays around forever!
But:
~Maybe they'll start charging us to use it someday.
~Maybe they'll start putting advertisements on our blogs.
Here are a few paranoid thoughts:
~Maybe they're following us, watching the sites we visit!
~Maybe if we post something they don't like someone will pay us a visit!
(A good plot for a movie, don't you think?)
I can see them putting ads on the blogs 🙄
DeleteYou've reminded me that I need to make copies of my blog posts and keep them on our computer. I started awhile back but got sidetracked. I hope Blogger is around for a long time, like everyone else here. I'm still fairly new at this and it's still interesting to me. I miss some of the bloggers I found a few years ago but who are now gone.
ReplyDeleteThe bloggers who left did so for a reason and let the reason be ❤️
DeleteSorry, I'm listening to the greatest hits of The Osmonds....
I hope Blogger carries on because there are new people joining all the time.
Wow, the beard really made you look much younger! :)
ReplyDeleteThis post is cool because I have founds blogs that I love and then it seems as soon as I subscribe to their blog or start leaving comments they quit...they just stop! Is it me???
I used to follow a lady that did a fashion blog. She would take a photo of her outfit everyday and she was witty and her fashion was something that normal people like I would wear, not a size zero! One day she just was gone. I kept checking and hoping and after 6 months I emailed her and she never responded and I realized that she was hit by a bus and I cried and mourned her and even to this day I still miss her, like I would miss a dear friend.
Most people when they are done blogging will do a good bye blog and I think that's good. Let me know you are still alive, but done with blogging so I don't lose a tiny piece of my heart. I assume if I never hear from someone again then they got hit by the bus and they're dead.
Re-read this and it brought to mind to me the people that lose someone and don't know where they are, like when a child is abducted or parents lose a child in war and they are MIA, how do you go on from there? Wow, so sad.
Nice story.
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