As you may have noticed my real life has encroached on my cyber life in a big way. There is precious little time for blogging left. More importantly I think that there is precious little motivation for blogging left.I began this enterprise to feed my sick narcissistic hungers. A no-account-sharecropping-colored-man in real life, whose opinions are routinely ignored if ever heard at all, I thought that feedback from the J-Blogosphere might proffer me the recognition and approbation that was sorely missing from my home and office.
Not only has this lonely Red-Tent Blog never attracted any readership and comments to speak of but , increasingly, I get the feeling that Blogging is an enterprise whose time has come and gone.
I neither tweet nor have a Face-book account. My sense is that there is a generational rift. At the slopes the over 45 set is still skiing while the hip youngsters are snowboarding. In cyberspace it is only a few crotchety old tech-challenged curmudgeons who are still blogging. Tweeting and Friending is where the action is... and where I am not.
8 comments:
I can't seem to get into Twitter in a major way (though I do have an account), but I do use Facebook quite a bit. While it wasn't built for it, Facebook can serve as a blogging platform. It doesn't have as many tools for writing posts, but it does have a lot of people commenting on everything under the sun. Why not try it?
And I've inspired myself - I'm going to try it too!
I'm already sunk into the 47th gate of impurity with blogging. Twitter and Facebook are numbers 48 and 49 respectively. No thanks. I've strayed too far already.
First of all, you have a readership. Don't you get comments on every post?
Second, who needs Twitter? What kind of society have we become that we think our every mental fart needs to be broadcast to the world?
mah she'ein kein blogging is only every fifth one or so...
;-)
When Bais Din Shel Maaloh asks you why you stopped blogging, why you stopped sharing a Torahdik viewpoint with the world, what will you answer?
Not sure why you keep saying you don't have a readership. We may be small, but we're not nonexistent.
Blog when you have time. Those who want to read will check in periodically and see if there's anything new.
I still enjoy blogs. They provide a medium that Facebook and Twitter can't emulate.
We love you BOF. Please, pretty please keep up this blog. Thank you!
Thank you LL. Maybe I will and maybe I won't. In the meantime if you truly love my writing there exist a plethora of (IMO) wonderful posts in the archives that drew nary a comment when first posted. Feel free to peruse and comment on those. If i see your name come up on the recent comments sidebar I will bl"n respond.
Happy Purim.
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