Sunday, February 10, 2008
What's Up With This Blogging Thing Anyway?
Seriously, I've had tons of people pushing me to BLOG more regularly, but I just can't seem to make it a priority. Maybe it's becasue I'm finally 40 years old, maybe I just dont' get it. Why would anyone want to read my ramblings about life anyway? And don't I already have enough to do without trying to write about it all in my blog? I mean seriously, why is this always one o fthe last things on my "to do" list? I mean it's been 3 week or so since my last post and it's not like I haven't had anythingt to write about. There's a ton going on in my life! But I'm more prone to pick up my old school journal where I actually write stuff donw with a pen in a book. Wow am I old! Last week I even opened a Face Book account becasue I want to try and stay as young and hip as possible for as long as possible, but now I've got all these people trying to get in touch with me and be my "friends". I don't mean to sound crass, but I don't need more friends. I need less friends. I can't keep in touch with the friends I already have, let alone adding some new ones! I have no idea how I'm going to survive all of this. I remember laughing at my parents becasue they couldn't figure out how to program their VCR and it kept flashing 0:00 and now I'm turning into my parents! AAAAaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! What am I going to do about this blogging thing? How long amd I going to seriously keep this up? Is anyone relaly reading this anyway?
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2 comments:
Hi Dave. Well, I've been reading your posts, so you've got at least one follower. ;-)
Seriously, until you build up a decent readership level it definitely feels like you're talking to yourself. Mine is tiny by "big blog" standards, but it's probably one of the top 2 or 3 in the book publishing world overall, so I'll take that. Plus, the number of people who either visit or get the RSS feed (total between 1,500 and 1,700 on any given day) is much, much larger than I've ever been able to reach by speaking at a conference, for example.
At the end of the day though, you might actually be evolving into your parents. Like it or not, this whole social networking thing just might not be for you, and that's OK. You don't have to feel guilty about abandoning it...better to not participate at all than to do it willy nilly, right?
Joe, I appreciate your encouraging words. I'm going to keep going for now and see what happens...
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