Blogging for Personal Sanity - Not Anymore
Posted by Ellie Mirman on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 @ 09:15 PM
I'm technically what you'd call a long-time blogger. I can't quite remember when I started my first blog, but it was quite a while ago, maybe in high school (ok, so that's only like 8 years ago). And this somewhat surprises/impresses people in the Internet marketing world where we talk about the wonders of blogging, particularly for businesses, quite a bit.
But my motivation to blog originally was not SEO, was not communicating with prospective customers, or anything like that. It was for my own personal sanity. Blog = Weblog = Online journal. Hence the name "livejournal," where my first blog was hosted. I could go on there and complain about my day or waste time if I was bored or procrastinating and so on.
So then, what happens now that I have a "real" blog, where I post "real" content, and a good chunk of my readers are people I work with? Well then I can't write nonsense and I can't vent the way I used to on my old blog. What now, I ask? Give up personal sanity for respectable Internet presence? That's the problem with the adult world: you have to be all respectable all the time. Oh, the plight of a recent grad.