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Twitter. Twitter twitter twitter.
I'm glad to see you over there now!
Mostly, I'm overwhelmed, and 140 characters is often as much as I can manage.
That said, I'm so glad to see you blogging, and I always look forward to your columns at that other place.
twitter, yes. plus, facebook, but you're there already.
Great question. Not really sure of the answer. For me, it's not twitter and it's not facebook -- I don't have accounts with either, and have little inclination to do so. They both seem to me to have even worse signal to noise ratios than blogging.
I'm still blogging, and still reading blogs, but I'm afraid I'm commenting less, and *connecting* less. I can't remember the last time that I wrote a great linky post arguing with three different blog posts on the same topic. Wednesday Whining is still going, although not as strongly as it was here.
I have to say, I think what you had going here with the pixies was something special, that not many blogs ever had.
I'd been missing your regularly blogging, trillwing! I should have known to check Twitter instead.
Oy, I have a half-finished column that was due two weeks ago. Life, it gets away from me...
Ah, Elizabeth, I wish I could persuade you to get an account with one place or the other. I'm new to Twitter, but the other is the reason why I *could* go quiet on the blogs for so long and not feel like I was giving up all my friendships, too.
I know what you mean, though, about not connecting even when you're still participating. I never stopped reading blogs -- and there have been several occasions where your posts have sparked something for me -- but I'm so out of the habit of saying so. I guess I'm trying to decide if it's worth resuming the habit, or if everyone is moving on.
I still blog, more regularly than most, but the blog was always a way of recording my experiences raising B, in a place where friends and family could drop by and catch up easily. Sure, Facebook and Twitter might tell you how I'm doing this instant, but they don't give you that much room for stories. Certainly, I can't look at my Facebook page and re-live what I was doing even a month ago.
But I'm reading fewer blogs, for sure, and connecting way less. It was never primarily a social tool for me, though.
Phantom on Twitter? I have to check this out!
I'm still reading blogs plenty, although I need to sweep the cobwebs out of my head in order to put my thoughts into words on a more regular basis. (I'm having this trouble in writing a short essay, for the first time in two years, as well.)
You should still blog. Facebook is great, but it doesn't give me the satisfaction that reading a well-written blog entry does.
I would be more eloquent, but I'm sick. Hey, that should be my Facebook status!
Twitter all the way. And the Facebook a little.
I never left, but it's been years since I read anyone's comments for interesting ideas and then clicked on the name to see what the person had to say on her blog. I was going to raise precisely the same sorts of questions you do here: has blogging peaked, or are new generations of blog-readers still out there, following the paths I trod myself? Maybe there's a corollary: does anyone still create a personal page at Geocities? Are the platforms themselves likely to represent particular moments in the Internet universe, and then slowly petrify?
I have a lot of questions but no answers. I'm not on the search engines, so I can't even look at my own referral stats to see if my own readers could give me any hints. Although I do see that it's been a long time since any new blog added me to a blogroll, which suggests that I'm embedded in a fairly stable blogworld by now. Where are the entry points?
I'm not mobile enough to see Twitter as a good option (I mean, I don't even have free texting on my phone, and I like to imagine that I'm not constantly at the computer, even though I too-often am) and Facebook continues to leave me cold, primarily because I don't know how to handle the anonymity vs. real question: I mean, even if I were on Facebook, to how many of my regular blog readers would I reveal that fact?
There was a way in which my blog was the natural next step from infertility and triplet-related forums, so the vibrancy of blogs seems linked in my mind to the vibrancy of forums. Are women discovering their IF diagnoses still finding IVF Connections first? Are there still duedate clubs on the major pregnancy sites? (I'm genuinely curious: those could be pretty active places back in 2001-2004, but in the age of Facebook and Twitter, I truly don't know if they still are.)
I wonder if there isn't an internet usage lifecycle: forum/message board --> desire for personal platform = blog --> building-up of blog community --> slow decline in blog usefulness, driven by changing life circumstances (original impulse to find forums/boards slacks off) and/or lifecycle of public journal-writing (the seasonal rhythms of blog boredom that appear like clockwork just about everywhere) --> search for something new to distract/excite us or transition to new platform of the day.
I don't know. I just don't know.
There's also the awkward-to-discuss "clique" aspect, the way in which blogs start out as fairly generalized universes in which all one's commentators seem to be the same, but over time some emerge as genuine friends while others float away to other parts of the Internet or just never quite click in the same way.
You're going to have to forgive me when some of this shows up on my own space in a few days or weeks, okay?
Oh -- there's also the way that the standard "parenting blogs" are probably first found by folks new to parenting. I well remember those feverish days when I had 20 new windows open, reading countless blogs to see who was best speaking to the wild experiences of parenthood, either in ways that were quite familiar to me or in ways that were fascinatingly different. I do want to believe that even with Facebook and Twitter, new parents are still feeling that sense of excitement and yearning for connection.
The question is: will they find Dooce and Finslippy and all the other Big Names? Of course. But will they stay there, given that the authors long ago left new-parenthood behind them? I find myself doubting it -- but then again, I never read those sites regularly, simply because I started out in the IF world and my big names were Julie and Tertia and Getupgrrl.
When did Erma Bombeck stop being read? I mean, she had a column for years and years -- but were new mothers in the 1980s discovering her and taking her to heart with the same fervor as their older sisters (and mothers) had? Does every new generation of parents need its own new big-name writers, and do blogs allow the generations to speed past that much faster?
Lisa V. at Vindauga talked about blog circles as Playgroups, and that organizing concept has stayed with me.
Oh My! Must we have more sound bites? Could you have put your “Very Small God” post on the twitter? Don’t stop blogging.
I find blogging so intimate at times. I think all those other social networking places lose that. And I've changed blog identities while you were away and I don't have much that I want to blog about these days anyway. Well things I want to blog about but don't for various reasons. However, I continue to read them. And I, too, am happy you're back. You were sorely missed.
I think the cycle Jody speaks of is still going strong. I am a very recent (and very lazy) blogger. I came via an IF message board to a fellow MBer's blog and then out into the IF blogging universe. I became a regular commenter but then felt bad at having no space of my own so people could see something about me if they wanted to hence the blog. I still add new people occasionally when I see links on favourite blogs. I guess this must have been how I found this. Once on my reader always there. As someone from the UK I can honestly say Dooce and some of the other huge parenting bloggers never crossed my radar. Now I can't really deal with the new to IF blogs - been there done that - so I just focus on the post IF parenting & loss blogs that speak most to where I am now. Facebook/Twitter don't work for me.
I use Facebook to play Scramble and Word Twist, not to feel Connected With The Multiverse.
I find the "news feed" of single line updates about people - some of whom friended me because we went to school together but never again messaged me - oddly staccato. The world is back to communicating in morse code. Or sound bites. Or song lyrics, half the time.
As for where I'm discussing? I'm doing less of it. I feel, sometimes, like I did my senior year, when a bunch of friends who were a year older had graduated and left a gaping hole in my social world.
Definitely still reading blogs. Don't have a Facebook account (and would I be Genevieve or RL self there? never the twain shall meet). I am amused, though, when I'm sitting with my husband and he suddenly updates his Facebook status to cover some goofy thing we're talking about. I don't twitter. I enjoy reading twitters about particular events (the Olympics, the debates) online, but yearn for the longer writing found on blogs.
The blog where I've found community the most lately is ALOTT5MA (A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago), which is mainly a group pop culture blog but has loads of sharp, funny commenters (and posters) I would like to meet and be friends with. The parenting blogs I read most these days are MysteryMommy, Angry Pregnant Lawyer, Jody, Julie at A Little Pregnant, Julia at Here Be Hippogriffs, and Electric Boogaloo. And now that you're back, Phantom Scribbler is my first stop!
Am I showing my age to say that I absolutely don't *get* either twitter or facebook, and that I still read and comment on blogs?
I have no interest in twitter or facebook either -- it's hard to imagine how someone would convince me that I'd get something out of them.
I feel connected, but perhaps in a faceless internet way, because there's a clear wall between me and the people I read.
(BTW, I don't blog myself, at least not publicly -- I have a password protected family blog with a readership of about two -- my daughter wants more people to read, and I wish more of my family would read it, but it's mostly a record for me and my children to share)
Oh, and I hang out reading Mir's blog at Woulda Coulda Shoulda, though I haven't partied with the other commenters.
I still blog, though mine has devolved from "info for other american vet students in scotland" to "the hosea show". I also use facebook, kinda, and am a tweep, kinda. You are still on my reader, though!
I use Facebook to keep up with friends, students, and a few family members. Like it for reconnecting with old friends.
I use Twitter to post small updates and gripes for people who don't know me IRL. I don't think anyone who follows me on Twitter has ever seen me face-to-face. I like following other people's feeds.
Blogging I don't do much anymore, although I read the blogs all the time. It's mostly that my family reads it, and I'm getting tired of (1) being harassed to "update your blog!" and (2) having them talk to me about things that I didn't really post for them, they don't get, and I don't want to discuss with them. As you can probably tell, I've gotten a little cranky about it. Also, I'm not pseudonymous, and I post about my daughter a lot, and I'm not sure how much I want to do that anymore.
I love reading the blogs, still. Keep writing.
I still blog, and I still read, but I read a lot more law-related blogs these days (here's a shocker: most law students who blog are women! and they blog anonymously! and more men blog as profs/lawyers/under their real names! plus ça change....). And I don't read as many - I still have tons on my reader, but many languish until the day I'm dying to find some way to procrastinate.
I am (as you know) on Twitter and Facebook; neither made any sense to me at first, and I had a Twitter account for a long time and did NOTHING with it. It was kind of like my initial reaction to posting things on a site online for strangers to read: why the hell would you want to do that? Um, yeah. Eventually I saw the appeal of all of them.
What I like about both Twitter and Facebook is having those micro-updates about what people I know are doing at any given time. It makes for a very rich kind of sense of my connections to the universe. (There was a great article at the NYT about this not too long ago.) Here are these people who live NOWHERE near me, but I can have a sense of what's going on in their lives and they can see what's going on in mine. Sure, blogging does that, in a more in-depth way, but this is quicker/easier, and it has an interesting cumulative effect.
That said: I tend to follow Twitter more than Facebook, and Twitter is populated more with my bloggy peeps. I'm on Facebook under my real name, with former students and current classmates as my friends there, which makes it odder figuring out how to use it. Also, I have a neat extension that pops up and tells me whenever there's a new tweet, and I have to choose to go to Facebook and look at people's status there - so I go through phases of updating there a lot, and then not at all. (I think there's a way to update them both simultaneously, but I haven't figured that out yet.)
To me, Twitter is a little bit like IM, but you don't have to respond until you want to. I never got into IMing or texting at all, so these are kind of alternates.
From what I can tell, a lot of my classmates (so we're talking a younger generation - people who don't remember the OJ Simpson trial, some of them!) use Facebook a lot. A lot of them text. They also chat online. I don't get the sense that they blog or Tweet - if they do, they don't do it in class where I can see. 
I do, though, sometimes feel like my blog is aging - that the kind of blogging I do is starting to turn into a dinosaur. I mean, in the mid-late 90s, I was on a slew of listservs, and participated in tons of conversations that way. And who uses listservs now?
Ah, Cranky Old Man. But could I write anything like the small god post on a regular basis? Definitely not. I don't mean that there is necessarily an either/or here, Twitter or blogging* -- they definitely serve different purposes. My question is more whether one of the purposes I used to use this blog for -- socializing, pure and simple** -- is now better accomplished in a different forum.
Jody, the anonymity v. real life question is a troubling one, for sure. My father and my sister are both on Facebook, as well as surprising numbers of other family members. That certainly limits what I am comfortable saying or doing there, even with privacy controls in place. But, on the other hand, the openness of blogging presents its own issues. I've more or less stopped looking at my sitemeter, but even when I did, I had no real way to know who was here and why, not unless people wanted to tell me. And I must admit I feel very ambivalent about writing personal things for an anonymous audience. There are plenty of other things to blog about, of course. But accepting that definitely changes the way I think about blogs and their potential to connect with new people. The people I connect with on Facebook are generally folks who are already long known to me, and that is somehow very comforting.
Are there still communities that coalesce around the big-name bloggers, parenting, infertility, or otherwise? I stopped clicking through comment feeds on the big bloggers I read -- it got to feel like too much. But some of the best friends I've made through blogging came through click-throughs past.
Thanks for adding your comments, Betty M. It's good to hear a new voice on this stuff!
* Or it may be that it's either/or, since my attention span has deteriorated a LOT since the days when I was exclusively blogging, and I can no longer blame parenting an infant for the downward trend on that one.
** I realize that the social aspects of blogging probably matter very little to someone who comments infrequently and anonymously.
New Kid, that is very much what I mean. I mean, there *are* still listservs, but the people who manage them are generally unaware of the ways in which web communication has moved on. Are social bloggers (as opposed to those who use blogs as a form of publication) going the same way as listserv managers?
Blogging will be my first point of reference because I like the information I pick up, especially during this political stormfest. Love the political posting that's going wild in the blogosphere.
I quit twitter in June because I had had enough of the spamming, people being ignored, and the fail whale. I joined Plurk instead, and I'm really a happy camper over there. I have made friends there, really good friends. Plus the conversation is threaded so you don't get lost trying to find out if anyone bothered to respond to your twits. I hated that about twitter.
Go and check Plurk out. You might hate it, you might love it. You'll probably find people you know on it, and it's SO much more manageable than Twitter. Much less clique-ish, too.
I still love blogging and still visit the same blogs I have for two years now. But I've noticed people have come and gone, and that the "center" seems to not be holding anymore...not sure why.
I can't stand Twitter--I just don't really get it, I guess. I do like Facebook, though.
Ugh. Who can keep up with all of the newfangled toolz out there? I still like my blog the best, but I've definitely ramped up my Facebook usage. But since I'm the RL me on facebook and I'm friends with lots of colleagues and family, the stuff I say there is necessarily different than what I blog. I love the anonymity of the blog (even if half of you have figured out who I am...it doesn't matter, it's not the same.) Don't stop blogging, PS.
I don't get Twitter. I try. Good lord, I try. My husband - he loves the Twitter. Twitters me every freaking detail of his life. So I log on and try to reciprocate, but all I can think of is "Kristen is sitting in front of her computer" and that doesn't sound very interesting to me...
I do like Facebook though. For some reason, that is different to me and more interesting. Not sure why.
...re-commenting to add that I DO NOT put my blog link on Facebook. What would I do if people I KNEW read my blog????
I do sound a bit neurotic, do I not?
Still blogging, still reading, still enjoying the community where I feel like I've developed some real connections. I'm on Facebook too, and I enjoy that but it is different--I think it is harder to get to know someone new there.
I haven't signed up for Twitter yet...but if everyone ends up there I suppose I will.
Bottom line: I hope the blogging community--including you--sticks around.
“** I realize that the social aspects of blogging probably matter very little to someone who comments infrequently and anonymously.”
Ouch.
It is true that my real name is not Cranky, and I do not post frequently. I have enjoyed your posts very much, and realize that is selfish, as it is very unlikely that I will ever meet you in person. I guess as a 60 year old man I just don’t understand the ramifications here. Sorry to have put you out.
No reason to apologize -- I didn't mean to sound put out. It's just true that different people have different uses for blogs in general and this blog in particular, and those uses don't always overlap. I do appreciate your affection for the small god post. As it happens, though, that is exactly the post over which my online life and my real life finally collided but good. I don't regret it, not at all, but it has made me think harder about the ramifications of putting all this stuff out there for an unseen audience.
Twitter yes definitely, and there are some Ning groups that are fun, but ultimately they all lead back to each others blogs. Blogging, and great writing, is still where it's at.
Although I still blog (in a fashion), I can't help but think the old days are over. But I am a bit of an internet dino since most of my internet socializing takes place on a message board with a very small audience.
Blogs seem less like salons and more impersonal. Certainly, with few exceptions, the quality of commenting has declined remarkably over the last three years.
I've noticed that any new blogs I follow come from connections I have made in either real life or through the above referenced message board.
It also seems that writing about parenting older children feels more invasive of their privacy so limits available subject matter. Same with jobs. Plus, there is only so much interiority that would interest other people over the long term.
While I giggle at your FB status messages, I also like when you indulge your wordier thoughtful side even when I also totally understand why that can't be as often as it was when your children were babies.
Umm...THey do such different things.
I was about to abandon twitter when suddenly a few months ago assorted blog friends started popping up there...but I don't really get why.
FB is great for scramble etc and connects me to my absent offspring but blogging is a space to be real about things that matter to me. The connections made there are far more substantial than any I could envisage in the other worlds...I can't see that they replace one another in any way though I guess as we have phases of differing activity in our lives one or other medium will work better...
But it would be sad if you abandoned the blog, really it would.
Plurk? I never even heard of that. It's so hard to keep up with all of this stuff.
I use my blog to keep myself writing every day. And to indulge my photography habit. Even though I did used to (and still sometimes do) use blogging as a way to interact socially with peers, it's mostly about reading and writing. I don't get as many comments on my blog as I used to because people now mostly comment when they have something to say about the post, whereas they used to often comment just to say hello.
I use facebook more like a big address book: I can find people there if I need to say something quick, like happy birthday! The weird thing about facebook for me is that I use my real name, and it combines worlds for me. My facebook friends include bloggers, my kids and their friends, two of my sisters, my nieces and nephews, former students, and even a few real life friends. (I'm still too old to have many real life friends on facebook.)
I just started on Twitter, using my blogging pseudonym, and that feels more to me like the old commenting parties here or at Pilgrim's. Right now 100 percent of my "followers" on Twitter are blogging buddies. I don't know anyone in real life who uses Twitter. That makes it very different than facebook for me. So I use Twitter just to hang out and be silly and talk with my blogging buddies.
I think eventually each of things will either find a niche or audience, or go the way of CB radios.
Oh, I'm not thinking of abandoning the blog -- at least, abandoning it more than I've already done. I'm trying to figure out if there's still a reason to conduct the purely social stuff -- like last year's World Series party -- here as opposed to somewhere else.
Hah! jo(e), that's one good reason to conduct a party on a blog. You went waaaaaaaaaay over the 140-character limit on that one!
Yeah, that 140-character limit on Twitter drives me crazy.
And I left out Flickr! I use Flickr for people who want to just look at my photos and not read the words. And of course, there's also instant messenger and email ....
It's all very complicated.
Oh, the the specialty sites. I started using Flickr again just so that I could post photos to Ravelry. (Knitting and crocheting social networking site.)
You know, no wonder I can't seem to make more than two thoughts cohere. How many conversations am I trying to conduct simultaneously these days, anyway?
I know! I think I'm talking to you in about ten different places at this very moment. And at the same time, talking to my daughter on the cell phone, my mother on the real phone, checking IM to see my oldest son's away status, talking to Artist Friend via email, and talking to my youngest son in (gasp) real life.
Is it any wonder I make no sense to anyone?
I am way too old for this.
And now you have to share your Ravelry ID
Actually, Ravelry is one of the places I've found myself spending time - but I'm not spending time *discussing* in any meaningful way, for the most part. I realize people *do* - but I haven't really found a niche over there that feels social as opposed to technical.
Sara, I tried to find you there yesterday! I'm there as PhantomScribbler. And I am waaaaaaaaay too wildly intimidated by everyone else's mad knitting skillz to join in any discussions there, social or technical. I did idly click through to see if there were any Ravelry-based knitting groups in my area, though.
I definitely find myself searching out new blogs much less often than I did in my early years of blogging. I'm on Facebook with my real life identity, and most of the people that I connect with there are folks I've met face-to-face, though there are some bloggers to whom I've revealed my secret identity. I tend to write much more about work on Facebook (where I'm connected to lots of work-colleagues), and much less about parenting.
I do Twitter, too, and in fact all the new blogs that I've started reading in the last six months are written by people who started out as followers on Twitter. None of them had ever commented on my blog, but I'm fairly sure that they were reading it--or why else would they be following me on Twitter?
I'm still here, Phantom, despite a hiatus over the summer, and I am so delighted to see you posting again. Part of the reason I took that summer break was that it seemed some of my favorite bloggers were either taking breaks or stopping altogether. I felt that folks had moved on to something bigger and better, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever, but I like blogging, I'm comfortable with it, and I don't have the inclination or the time to explore these other outlets. For what it's worth I've seen a similar population die-off on the parenting boards I follow.
So I do miss the folks who have moved on, but I'm always happy to here from and comment on my older bloggy friends. I also missed having the volume of blog posts I normally have that describe our life, so I came back.
There may be fewer folks blogging now for whatever reason, but I for one am happy to stick with my bloggy friends who are still posting (and this does include you 
). I might click through and make some new friends, I might now, it kind of depends on how the time situation develops...
I agree with whoever said they have different purposes.
FB is more RL--and all of it. People have friended me that I haven't seen in 10, 15, 18 years. My sister, my cousins, my husband, my local friends and neighbors. I like the status updates. I do have blogging buddies as FB friends, BUT all of them are people I trust not to "out the blog" (as it were).
My blog...sometimes I just want to quit on it because I feel like it's the same 10 people reading my not very important words, and several of those people have become RL friends who I am in touch with over email or whatever. But the blog (or that person's blog) is how we met (or "met") in the first place. And there are always surprises--I really have no idea how many people read. Every once in a while someone will comment who never has before, and hey they've been reading for a while (!). What? Where did they come from? How did they find me? And the blogoverse works!
I still read, though, all the time. Even if I don't comment, because those people somehow get "it" (whatever it is) in a way that I have a hard time replicating in real life.
I am so glad to see you posting again. I have missed you. I do not twitter or facebook. I read blogs but do not have one of my own. I do think things have changed in the blog world and that many blogs I used to read and love have disappeared. People and their lives evolve and so their blogs status changes. It is a lot like when a good friend or neighbor moves away. Even when you try to stay in touch it is never the same. Hope all is well with you and yours. Thinking of you and wishing you the best
i'm also glad you are posting again!
i really like blogs, because they feel like little communities, where there are ongoing conversations. but i'm not a good blog citizen in that i've never begun my own public blog.
I'm still everywhere I have been. Haven't been on facebook or twitter.
I have also been sticking a bit close to home (my hoa forums, local politics blogs, and the local rags' forums).
All politics is local and local politics is addictive.
I started reading the Infertility blogs back in 2004, and followed many wrenching journeys alongside my own. When the babies (and mine) finally got born, I rejoiced in the community that understood exactly what we had, and how dearly though gratefully we'd paid for it. And then one just dropped out -- Chez Miscarriage, the brightest star -- and took the heart of the group away, to use in private. Her right; but she is greatly missed.
Not least by me, because most of the old Posse went on to conceive second children, and this is a conversation I cannot join. (We tried our best.) So like you I am seeking community in groups of similar thought & feeling, and it is difficult since my bitterness at the loss is caustic.
I sometimes compose long mental essays on the joys and sorrows of life in the berkshires, where farm animals live and die in the backyard, and my son thinks I am God because I can catch any frog. But these musings don't seem blogworthy -- maybe as a guest, but not a resident, especially as it really is becoming a new world.
I am sorry for your losses, Dee. Very sorry. And I would read whatever you chose to write about, if you began blogging even occasionally.
I am glad that so many of you are still here, in this slightly diminished blogoverse of ours.
I agree with everyone about the different uses for different sites.
Twitter to me is for a single funny observation to use maybe a couple of times a day. I like the 140 character limit. Forces me to be creative and get to the point. I twitter anonymously. Don't link my blog to it or Facebook. I sometimes get overwhelmed by people who twitter really often. I honestly don't know how anyone keeps up with following a lot of people who twitter a lot.
Facebook is my RL friends and family, though some of the blogging community has become my friends. I'm slightly unnerved that someone could follow someone from Twitter and lead it back to my blog. My secretary and my sister read my Facebook. I'm careful.
However, the blog has changed. Now it's mostly stuff I'm only comfortable having my neighbor and coworker, etc. know. It's a shame for me, because I don't really have that place anymore to really explore stuff I used to.
My readership is down, I rarely read a new blog, and blogging is not what it used to be for me.
However, I'm still really, really thankful I've formed friendships and had insights into all sorts of people's lives over the last few years.
I'll keep blogging, but now realize I do it mostly for a record of my life. That old "I was here!" thing.
What? Why didn't my feed tell me you were back! I'm so upset!
Hurray! Glad to see you here again though. Missed you.
I know this conversation has long since moved on, but the reason I'm late to the party is exactly what I wanted to add to the conversation. I really thought it was just me and my RL preoccupations (ie 8 mos old baby) that made the blog world seem so different to me lately. I'm kind of relieved, but also kind of sad, to hear that it's not just me.
I'm on twitter, as you know, and after a year of scratching my head and wondering why people bother, I'm quite hooked now. Microblogging is such a relief, especially for the compulsively verbose. And it's ever so much easier to keep up!!
Even though I've managed to keep blogging with reasonable regularity, I have completely dropped the ball on reading and commenting on blogs, and I really miss that. I just can't find the time, and it makes me sad and feel a little guilty -- these nice people keep reading (and commenting, although considerably less), but I never get around to repaying the kindness. Oh, the guilt.
And I haven't been on Facebook for months. Something had to go, and I couldn't return the kids.
Like I said to you on twitter, I'm kind of hoping twitter is the new blogverse of 2005. I'd love to see Liz and Jody and Elizabeth and Rev Dr Mom and a few others from this comment thread on there, though!
Something had to go, and I couldn't return the kids.
Dani! Lord knows I've tried, though!
I did get on Facebook (under my real name), but it's a completely different thing to me than my blog. The blog is a venue where I can interact as anonymously as I wish. But I haven't had the time or energy to keep up with blogging much lately either. Too busy just trying to survive life.
I've never even heard of the other mediums mentioned, like Twitter. I guess I'm hopelessly out of the loop.
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