I am thinking of blogging professionally.
I have been blogging for years but I have gone MIA recently. Let's say in the past 3-4 years I have been inactive compared to the time I was really blogging. And what I mean by really blogging --- it's all about writing thoughts and fears and annoyances. It's a true journal, the kind that starts off with "Dear Diary" and ends with "Revenge! Revenge!"
Yesterday I visited my old blog in Livejournal. I actually made friends online, via that blog. A stranger would drop by, read my blog, and this person would add me as a "friend". And then there were comments. And then I would add back, and the next thing you knew, you were making comments about each other's sex life and sharing seduction plans.
Right now, blogging has become less personal.
I think people are not that interested to learn about people as they used to. Why the hell not --- we are bombarded with reality TV anyway. The guys at Jershey Shore, albeit the fact that all they do is get drunk and kiss each other and generally piss about everyday... now that's the current demand. Frankly, despite the fact that I go to work everyday, I clock in and out, and I go out once or twice a week, my life is far more colorful. Because my thoughts actually have substance.
These thoughts --- are they something worth blogging about? Why do people blog these days? Do people still share pieces of themselves on the Internet aside from their reviews on the latest gadgets, the movies, the social scene, and what they are wearing?
I am currently using Twitter more mainly because I want to get the hand of these "stream of things". I do not want to be left behind and grow old without having a clue how FourSquare works. But hey... I haven't even got an iPod, my phone is in its rustic stage at 2 years old despite it being 3G and touchscreen and wi-fi enabled (it's very vintage considering the turnover of technology these days).
So if I am going to be a professional blogger, what am I going to write about?
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