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Let's not mince words here -- this blog is now dead.
I hesitate to say it so officially. After all, most people don't consciously acknowledge such a passing, letting silence speak for itself. And wow, I have more than eight great years of epiphanies, celebrity sightings, work embarrassments, rants, and cultural adventures dutifully recorded here. But it's become very clear to me that I'm never going to update this thing again.
We've had a shockingly long and rewarding relationship... but to be honest, I've been two-timing on Livejournal for quite some time. Social networks like Facebook have usurped the primary purpose of this site: to keep in touch with friends across geographical distances.
Rest assured that I still remain in D.C., with misadventures to spare. I will totally miss sharing them here. In a small but very real way, doing so made my life in DC more ALIVE, and more alert to all the pleasantries and quirks and beauties that fill each day.
The weird thing, of course, is that blogging now seems... well, so QUAINT. So old-fashioned, this idea of taking the time to construct paragraphs of text, telling a story, fleshing out an idea or thought through the process of writing about it. We've been reduced to brief one-sentence status updates (or worse, in the case of Twitter: 140 characters). It's easier to stay in touch than ever before. Yet our communication becomes more superficial with each sign of "progress."
You will never learn as much about me on Facebook as you might have here. But such are the sacrifices of life, and mine grows busier -- and richer -- by the day.
I still READ my friends' contributions on this site, and will continue to do so. And I am accessible via email and the aforementioned FB. So please, let's stay in touch. The original desire that drove me to create this blog still lives on, and I certainly don't want to miss hearing your own life's misadventures!
I hesitate to say it so officially. After all, most people don't consciously acknowledge such a passing, letting silence speak for itself. And wow, I have more than eight great years of epiphanies, celebrity sightings, work embarrassments, rants, and cultural adventures dutifully recorded here. But it's become very clear to me that I'm never going to update this thing again.
We've had a shockingly long and rewarding relationship... but to be honest, I've been two-timing on Livejournal for quite some time. Social networks like Facebook have usurped the primary purpose of this site: to keep in touch with friends across geographical distances.
Rest assured that I still remain in D.C., with misadventures to spare. I will totally miss sharing them here. In a small but very real way, doing so made my life in DC more ALIVE, and more alert to all the pleasantries and quirks and beauties that fill each day.
The weird thing, of course, is that blogging now seems... well, so QUAINT. So old-fashioned, this idea of taking the time to construct paragraphs of text, telling a story, fleshing out an idea or thought through the process of writing about it. We've been reduced to brief one-sentence status updates (or worse, in the case of Twitter: 140 characters). It's easier to stay in touch than ever before. Yet our communication becomes more superficial with each sign of "progress."
You will never learn as much about me on Facebook as you might have here. But such are the sacrifices of life, and mine grows busier -- and richer -- by the day.
I still READ my friends' contributions on this site, and will continue to do so. And I am accessible via email and the aforementioned FB. So please, let's stay in touch. The original desire that drove me to create this blog still lives on, and I certainly don't want to miss hearing your own life's misadventures!
You make this point perfectly. Blogging is being killed by Twitter and the social networking sites.
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Why?
YOU are the one that has chosen to reduce your communication to one-sentence status updates. That is not twitter's fault.
I don't see why anyone who writes a blog and enjoys it as a creative outlet, would in any way find Twitter an acceptable substitute. If your friends no longer read your blog, I doubt it's because they find your twitter updates to be more interesting. If you're sick of blogging, fine, but don't blame that on twitter.
Re: Why?
I find myself spending significant time there because they offer me information on many friends at once -- and they're just plain addictive. But for better or worse, most of that finite amount free time that I'd devoted to blogging, say, three years ago -- when these sites didn't exist -- now goes primarily to Facebook.
Like most of my friends, I have sacrificed depth for breadth. I've done it willfully -- it's simply easier and more convenient to type in a few bite-sized words throughout the day, rather than take the time to develop a coherent argument or observation and see it through.
Like nearly all of us here in DC, I'm a pretty busy and active type of person. I guess what I lament most is that the opportunity cost for blogging is significantly higher than it once was. To do it as "well" as I'd like, I'd have to give up much of that time with social networking -- on sites in which my friends are very active, and have chosen themselves as a replacement for sites live LiveJournal -- or simply devote more of my leisure time to the computer.
For me personally, something had to go. I weighed the costs and benefits, and found the easiest thing to do would be to ditch the blog.
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