On Not Blogging

Once upon a time I started a blog. This blog. I already had one, for business, but I decided I wanted one for more personal posts. I wrote a post every few weeks and enjoyed sharing stories about my life.

Then came Twitter.

Right now, it’s been over a year since I wrote a post for my personal blog. It’s not that I haven’t had anything to say, but between Twitter and Facebook I share my thoughts, favorite links, pictures, and ideas so there isn’t much left to actually blog about.

I admire people who are still blogging. I really do. I just don’t know if that will ever be me again. Maybe for me, personal blogging was a season of life. Maybe in another year or two I’ll have the desire to share some stories as blog posts again. We’ll see.

Until then, you can find me here.

Comments

[Vinny]

I have a theory.

Researchers have found that men and women each speak about 16,000 words per day (contrary to popular belief each gender is equally verbose):

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3348076&page=1

I propose that just as we seem to have an upper limit on how much we speak, we also have an upper limit on how much we write.

Each word tweeted, e-mailed, texted or facebooked is one less word blogged.

I know in my case this tends to be true.

I also think when we write or speak, we're drawing from the same 16,000 word limit.

I find the more I speak, the less I write, and vice versa.

[Lori]

I totally agree. Amazing to think that I actually run out of stuff to say, but I do. Every time I think of something to blog about, I tweet or FB it instead and have nothing left to say here.

And, I find social media sites more gratifying because I usually get immediate responses as opposed to blogging, where comments are few and far between.

I noticed that you put up a blog post the other day - are you back to blogging? Or just once a year like me? :)