There’s a Kind of Hush All Over BlogWorld
Is it spring fever?
Or fever and malaise?
Or just plain malaise?
Maybe it’s just mayonnaise…
I don’t know, but something is shutting down bloggers and blogs. They’re dropping like flies. They’re crawling into the woodwork leaving terse goodbyes, pithy kiss-offs and blank pages.
People who blogged daily are now updating only on the bicentennial.
People who woke up and ran to their computers, eager to share the good, the bad and the ugly in their lives have “gone fishing”, moved with no forwarding address or are now posting under an assumed name in another blogosphere.
Bloggers are deflating, disintegrating and disappearing at an alarming rate.
What are they doing now?
Are they working for crissakes?
Tending to the children?
Cooking gourmet dinners in their oh-so tidy house?
Writing the great (fill in the country) novel?
Riding their bikes?
Having picnics in the country?
Taking in a show?
Putting together Ikea furniture?
Watching Tivo?
Scrapbooking?
Am I the last lazy do-nothing blogger in the universe?
Hello?
Anybody home?
posted by mary bishop | 1:01 PM
21 Comments:
Hrm. Interesting. I've noticed the same thing. I hope it's not CLEANING the tidy house, because it's so much more fun to blog than swiffer.
Oh good, Melissa is alive and well!
I've been blogging for a while now, and this is the quietest time I've seen. Maybe it's just my blog that's dead. Or maybe it's just my blog regular reads that are closing up shop.
But in my world, the blogosphere is not expanding but shrinking like nuts fresh from a midnight dip.
PS - I took off word verification and even the Spammers are among the missing.
I notice that most of my regular blog contacts mysteriously dissapear most Friday evenings, to come back sometime around the following Monday morning.
So, I just tell myself that it's good my blog friends have a life, even if I don't!
I think there is some shrinkage, for sure ... people who stopped looking at blogging as something fun to do and more of a "responsibility". Since they already had enough of those, they bailed.
How can people not maintain the levels of self-obsession required to continue blogging? God. I'm convinced that if I stopped, the world would collapse ...
That's really the only reason I do it. It's for the people ...
There's just not enough hours in the day anymore. I swear it's dropped to 21 or 22.
Spring fever? Maybe it's not a bad thing. Maybe blogs bloom in the winter.
I can buy into the arguments of Spring Fever and the idea of responsibility versus fun.
But still, really? No spammers? That's amazing.
Kimananda...the weekend drought is one thing..but I've had 4 regular reads recently pack it in for good...or for good for a while...maybe they'll come back...I hope so.
Nilbo...you and me both baby. I don't blog for *me* -- it's to educate the public, to spread good or ill will, and to get noticed and famous...any day now.
Doc Nos...yup...you nailed it. Most bloggers do try to put together a coherent, reasonable piece of writing that is intended to inform or entertain. It takes time and work to even try to come up with the idea of the post, never mind the writing and fine tuning...if you get that far.
And blogging is way beyond a personal journal..bloggers want people to read their words...if they wanted a personal journal they could make their blog private.
So the old personal journal idea of blogging is a snare and a delusion.
Metro...oh yes...time...did we all have that much more time a year ago when blogworld percolated with people, posts and prose?
I really do believe I had much more time a year ago...and I'm not sure what's the difference now. Must be time allotment. As Doc says...it's not new anymore. But what other reasons I wonder?
Oh how nice to see Hank the Dog, how you'd love to meet Metro's Jack..another pretty face! You do bring up an excellent point...winter is a wonderful time to blog...in good weather, the outdoors beckons...
I'll have to go back a year and see the traffic then. (Tail wagging to see you at my blog, by the way.)
Melissa...here I am..no word verification for weeks and not a single spam comment.
That worries me...where'd the spammers go. Why aren't they flooding my blog with ads for penis enlargers...just a few short months ago..I would have been loaded with such comments...alas, they no longer seem to care about my penis anymore. What? I don't have a penis? Oh, that's right..never mind.
Everyones comment here makes a really good point. Maybe blogging is too much of a responsibility, or a winter thing or maybe there are lots of reasons to not blog or read blogs, maybe they don't have anything good enough to say like this here long dumb comment of mine.
Whatever, I'm glad your still here. I am sad that Susie is not blogging right now other than her Sunday posts. Another one of my favs quit for health reasons possibly so my blogroll is dwindling. I even thought about deleting my blog when I was going thru some sort of "thing" but I came out of it. I've met some really great people here in blogland and I'm glad I'm still here, "blaghing" away. And I am very thankful that you are still here Mary, I just love ya, that's all.
Hey! I'm here... Unfortunately, there ARE very specific reasons for why some people stop blogging. : ( One blogger in my blogger has been sick with cancer for a very long time, and tragically, took a turn for the worse. I really hope that everybody else who stopped blogging did so just because they got tired of it. I, however, have no intentions of stopping!
My Precious Dashababy -- you are so sweet and I love you too!
I plan on continuing to blog, but I do think winter lends itself to blogging better than the warmer months.
Most of my blogs aren't worth the pixels their written with, but that doesn't stop me!
Irina...now if you stopped blogging I'd know the world was coming to an end. I certainly hope too, that the people who have stopped-- have stopped because they're happy doing other things and not because they are sick.
Mine's been overload of real life (I get so sick of blogging about the irritating and I've been waiting to try to blog about the good) combined with a horrible head cold. And finals. All at once. :) I'll be back, I promise. Blogging's part of my regular routine, whether I'm at work or not. It might not be until July that I'm back on a regular schedule (the joys of moving) but I'm alive. :) Still, you're right. Even the spammers seem gone. The world is quiet. People who used to write daily now go every other day or even weekly. Myself included. It might be the weather, too. I like lots of outdoorsy people and the weather's too nice for them to stay in and blog.
Echrai...you are one of the people who can't leave...you can post sporadically, monthly or by proxy but don't go!
Sangroncito...same goes for you. How would I know what it's like in Brazil or other places without your insight?
What a loss that would be.
♥,
Steve
♥ back at you Steve!
Doc, WV is a pain, especially when it's your own blog that won't let you comment without going through the WV process. So far so good for me...
Well...I had to stop when I had to start working (instead of playing) at work & I got the dumb idea that I could take two classes online and work and be a single mom etc etc all at the same time...I mean, what was I thinking or...was I even thinking at all? OK, I made it through two seriously difficult classes, I got an A in one (the other hasn't posted yet) and the deadlines at work have passed and I can (sorta) breath again...sigh...good to see you guys again! :-)
Weetzie, good for you to work and go to school and be a mommy. I'm just pleased that once in a while you stop by to say hi...makes me happy.
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