Blogging Thoughts 2022

I wonder what it will be like to start all over again in blogging.  What will be my first post like?  Will it be something like what I wrote way back in 2006?  Boredom.  It is a sad, sad word.  I could not recall what I was doing then 16 years ago.  Maybe I was in some crossroads of my young career that I wanted to be doing something else.

This blog is supposed to be a secret repository of my thoughts - my leftover thoughts.  That is why I used a pseudo-name.  I wanted to explore the internet, grow in it, like it is my own fantasy world.  I had a few short stories and poems posted  somewhere in the internet.  Everyone else at that time was having fake names.  I'm not sure if they wanted a new persona that is different from reality.  I don't know their reasons, or maybe it was something like a therapy for them.  I am not a recluse though.  Promise.

Time came when some readers (which are mostly bloggers, by the way) question the authenticity of some other bloggers' posts. People were asking bloggers their credentials.  What makes you an authority to write this or that? It was difficult to distinguish truth from fiction.  As for me, I didn't care if a post is true or just something created from one's imagination. If it was beautifully written, then go.  If the post is sincere, or funny, then go. The search for truth is up to the reader.  And blogs written by anonymous bloggers are not good sources for it.  Entertainment-wise, maybe yes.  By the way, I didn't doubt any of those bloggers whom I connected in the past.  I think they were all sincere and real people.

Then there was Facebook. Connect here and connect there.  Gone are the pseudo-names.  It became difficult to hide in the shadows.  Why are we hiding anyway?  No, there was no malicious reason at all. It was just like a kind of fun to be shrouded in a little mystery.  Then there was Twitter.  Short puns and plenty of meanings.  Who has the time to read lengthy posts when there is microblogging?   So every other blogger went to twitter to promote his/her posts.  I didn't follow that path.  I created another persona in twitter.  But then, some fun things never last.

Probably it's time to explore blogs once again.  I definitely don't want tiktok.  Those dancing turn me off. 

Blogging Thoughts 2021

What is there to blog when you can Vlog?  Oh, wow!  Vlogging is the new cool.

Perhaps the pandemic changed the internet landscape in just a year's time.  Maybe I have to revive my youtube account and maybe, hmmm...

Actually, the reason why I updated my site today is just to see if blogger still function as it used too.  It may not have the influence as it used to.  But nothing changed much really.  I just need to make some slight tweaks. Perhaps, a new template. 

Should I write more?  I actually laughed at myself trying to answer this question.  To my few subscribers out there:  Are you still blogging?

Grammar Police

In the past, grammar police are all over the blogosphere.  They don't bash you for how you look, but at how you write.  Trying-hard bloggers would often have sleepless nights trying to edit, and re-edit their own posts.  If content is King, then they made sure their content is not badly written.  Some even went to the extent of hiring professional editors. Why not?

For the simpler bloggers like me who didn't dream of stardom, we just write whatever comes to mind.  No edit, no headache. Insult to readers?  No way.  We simply write for ourselves, for our own sanity.  Readership is just a bonus.

But sometimes, in my free time, I reread some of my past posts.  Why am I not editing these posts? It's embarrassing to admit, so I just smile at my blunders.  If these were Facebook posts, maybe I really have to check and recheck my grammar. Good thing I blog in anonymity.

So where are the grammar police nowadays?  Maybe they are now into some new social media platforms.  I don't miss them anyway.