What is a blog to me?

I was asked this question by QuasiFictional Views. What is a blog to me? I’ll tell you.

Blogging to me, is coming together in this large, vast world to share opinions, ideas, stories, and inspirations. It is the opportunity to have friends that you’d have otherwise not met. People share their personalities and photos with the world in hopes that other like-minded people will feel the same, or maybe differently. A blog to me, is a forum with an unlimited amount of possibilities as to what you can put on there for the world to see. Be it an online journal, a place to share family pictures, or a place to rant and rave about work and others of life’s misgivings.

They also ask how do I make blogging easy. Well, I could say that I make blogging easy by taking whatever information I can find and sharing it with my readers, in my own voice. I put my personality out there and others do the same. Blogging is easy and I would encourage everyone out there to get a blog. If not to chronicle day to day activities, then to say something! Have a voice and be heard!

Blogging matters in life because it gives us an out. We can vent here and community members can laugh or cry with us, or agree or disagree.

I first started a “blog” around 1999/2000, the site was globalcrap.com. I raved about work and other stuff like that. People emailed submissions to me for posting and that was that. Back then, if you got a link from someone, that person was probably your real life friend. Then, when you linked to people, it wasn’t because they paid for the link, it was because you genuinely liked what they had to say. This site was taken down immediately after my manager asked what it was. I replied that I didn’t know and took the site down before he could find out for himself. I wish now that I would’ve kept it alive and going. It was all written in basic HTML and was updated by hand.

After that, I started tinkering around with blogs in December of 2005, at lonelynomore.net. I got the site name because I was reviewing dating sites and making fun of personal ads (I know, rotten, right?) at the time. Also, the domain name idea came from the Rob Thomas song of the same name.

Afterwards, I moved on to Yes, Mistress over at ClevelandBrew.com. They imported all of my posts, if you’d like to check them out. I was frankly evil in what I’ve said over there. Especially to the guy that hit my new car four days after I got it.

Then it was Earsucker.com. I love this site, it’s all about music and the such. Hop on over sometime and say hi.

Now I have this blog. I’m happy that I can share some aspect of my life with you. Also, I’ve guest posted at ICYDK.com and PureBlogging. Hang around a while and see what happens next!