I am not particularly outgoing in the written, the spoken, or the electronic word. In most social settings I am a "wallflower"; though I do have a good number of friends, I am generally well thought of and well liked, and I can even be excessively entertaining at times.
I find myself writng this because I would like to induce a little of the more outgoing part of me to come out in situations where I normally find myself uncomfortable. Blogging is particularly disturbing for me because I see it as a means of sharing either intensly personal details about myself (which I don't do) or the excessive mundanities of a normal life (which is boring and why should you care).
There is a middle ground however; I've seen it in hundreds of blogs. I just don't seem to know how to find that middle ground in any coherent fashion. But now I am going to endeavor to try. Not literally right now, that would take an amount of cogent thought that I am not willing to put forth at the moment.
Of course, the real limiting factor of all this is that a blog, theoretically, is meant to be read by other individuals. The fact is if you look at my friends tab you will see that I have no friends. I am apparently as "shy" online as I am in the waking world. So I write this not knowing if anyone has ever(well 2 at least) or will ever, actually read it. I suppose that is part of the issue of blogging for me. If I have no audience, why does it matter?
It is entirely possible that there is daily traffic to my page, though. Since SG doesn't have a profile view counter (it would be interesting to know why not) the lack of "contact" with other SG members could be entirely of my own derivation. If I am unwilling/uninterested to provide some content, is it unreasonable to expect that others would be unwilling/uninterested to provide contact?
I suppose this is a first step toward that. I have now provided some content. If people are stopping by my profile from time to time, it stands to reason that I will get some contact. At the least it will be an interesting experiment about participation/non-participation.
I will now leave my theoretical readers with a couple of links to my friend Xeno. Of the many personal blogs that I have read, these are the ones I enjoy most. You know, the ones where you get upset because the author hasn't posted something in 3 days.
XENO
This is his LJ site where he has been doing a chronilogical retelling of his life starting somewhere between 18-20 and currently being up to and around 2 years ago. Its sort of like what I heard the book Million Little Pieces is about, but this stuff actually happened to him.
QEOX
This started as an LJ which he later migrated. Qeox is an exquistely detailed, intricate, and intertwining fictional account of an alternate America. For a good start into qeox, I recommend the FAQ (upper left triangle) and the EE-TOC (lower left triangle), the second gives you an intro to the type of content and style you will find inside.
I find myself writng this because I would like to induce a little of the more outgoing part of me to come out in situations where I normally find myself uncomfortable. Blogging is particularly disturbing for me because I see it as a means of sharing either intensly personal details about myself (which I don't do) or the excessive mundanities of a normal life (which is boring and why should you care).
There is a middle ground however; I've seen it in hundreds of blogs. I just don't seem to know how to find that middle ground in any coherent fashion. But now I am going to endeavor to try. Not literally right now, that would take an amount of cogent thought that I am not willing to put forth at the moment.
Of course, the real limiting factor of all this is that a blog, theoretically, is meant to be read by other individuals. The fact is if you look at my friends tab you will see that I have no friends. I am apparently as "shy" online as I am in the waking world. So I write this not knowing if anyone has ever(well 2 at least) or will ever, actually read it. I suppose that is part of the issue of blogging for me. If I have no audience, why does it matter?
It is entirely possible that there is daily traffic to my page, though. Since SG doesn't have a profile view counter (it would be interesting to know why not) the lack of "contact" with other SG members could be entirely of my own derivation. If I am unwilling/uninterested to provide some content, is it unreasonable to expect that others would be unwilling/uninterested to provide contact?
I suppose this is a first step toward that. I have now provided some content. If people are stopping by my profile from time to time, it stands to reason that I will get some contact. At the least it will be an interesting experiment about participation/non-participation.
I will now leave my theoretical readers with a couple of links to my friend Xeno. Of the many personal blogs that I have read, these are the ones I enjoy most. You know, the ones where you get upset because the author hasn't posted something in 3 days.
XENO
This is his LJ site where he has been doing a chronilogical retelling of his life starting somewhere between 18-20 and currently being up to and around 2 years ago. Its sort of like what I heard the book Million Little Pieces is about, but this stuff actually happened to him.
QEOX
This started as an LJ which he later migrated. Qeox is an exquistely detailed, intricate, and intertwining fictional account of an alternate America. For a good start into qeox, I recommend the FAQ (upper left triangle) and the EE-TOC (lower left triangle), the second gives you an intro to the type of content and style you will find inside.