I wrote:
I think it is an interesting question. I don't have an answer at the moment. I've been blogging since 1998 and still think of it as free expression more than a business. Really can not see blogging as a business at all in fact. It is still the media, not the actual business. The business is get rich quick, publishing or sales.What do you regret, if anything?
If I regret anything it would be that I didn't start sooner or more specifically, that I didn't spend more time on learning the technical side when I had more time and far more knowledgeable contacts through blogging. Nowadays you rarely get anyone to give a real reply through email. I used to get all kinds of feedback and information from other bloggers who were far more creative and accomplished technically than I am.
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I regret allowing others to dictate what I should and should not write when I first started out. Now I know better, and just blog for myself. People seem to like it when I am just Monique.
I also regret not starting sooner!
I regret...
not blogging more often. I tend to blog when I am undergoing treatment and soon afterwards. When I start to pick up (emotionally) I stop, so I only ever blog when hormonal and emotional. Trying to make a real effort this summer to change this!
(ICLW)
Wow, you've been blogging a long time! I wish I'd started sooner, but other than that I don't think that I regert anything about blogging!
A visitor from ICLW!
I regret the time it takes that could be used to do better things: After all, there are SOME things worth doing apart from blogging, right? Lol.. Not:)
Anyways, I was kind of hoping you'd visit at www.womenetcetera.com. Having read a few of your posts, I think you've definitely got to join us!:)
So do visit us! Have a good day!:)
Natasha
I'm not over 50 yet, Natasha. :)
I definitely regret not starting sooner. I've only been blogging since Nov07, but I feel like I've missed out on a whole lot.
Outside of that I don't really regret much about it. I basically treat it as my online journal.
ICLW
I regret that sometimes I find myself holding back on my blog. I'm so afraid to say things sometimes...I'm afraid people will think I'm a big pervert.
I was discussing the matter of blog-regret with a fellow blogger recently. We were discussing how some bloggers see no problems with deleting posts, editing old posts (to remove material, or change it, not just for fixing typos or whatever) and even removing comments. I think if you felt it was relevant enough to blog about, you should stand by it ... what kind of person is ashamed enough of things they said in a public forum that they feel they have to go back and delete it at some point months or even years after it was written?
Perhaps it just shows that we seem to able to forget that blogs *are* a public forum sometimes. I think that the vanity bloggers see it is in terms of being a diary. Blogs are an outlet, just like a personal diary, but many seem to forget that it's not private - the blog is very much a public medium. It certainly changes the face of data integrity ...
Oh, I just realised I didn't actually answer the question! What do I regret? Nothing. Not a thing. Thanks for the post, Laura, you always seem to be able to get me thinking :)
L
I regret not being able to succesfully stay anonymous. And now that I'm not feeling like I have to self censor. I'm still figuring out how to straddle that line.
I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner but I also regret posts (entire blogs actually) which I have lost. I had a blog while going through my divorce which I was doing as an FTP through Blogger. I deleted it for some reason, didn't know it would all be gone forever. I hoped it would be saved on Blogger/ Blogspot but it wasn't. That is a regret. I wrote a lot during those days.
I also think about not writing some things which some people would think are over the line, too adult. But, in the long run it is my blog and I hope instead of being shocked or offended, people will find something of themselves in what I think and write. I hope people will feel we are all less alone and all have some of the same thoughts inside of our heads.
Hi from ICLW,
I regret not blogging from the get go of my infertility. I missed out on a lot of support that I could have had.
The one thing that I have regretted is that I did not continue my blog after my wedding. And the fact that I now spend way too much time doing this.
A visitor for ICLW.
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