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BLOG LIFE

I read a many other personal blogs.

There is a lot of turnover.

Most of them have a short shelf life.

Today, one guy who I have read for a couple years, announced that he had shaved his head (he had long hair) and would be taking a long vacation from the blog. This is out of nowhere unless you had been reading along.

He has just been through a serious breakup of a year long relationship and, at his job, he has been 'forced' to move to a new location where they have (gasp) made him move into a cubicle. Shared. With his supervisor at the next desk.

Well, I wouldn't want to be in a cubicle either.

Too stressed out to write any more.

Another one got into a relationship, then an out of town job. Busy. The blog was too much.

I read between the lines. The boyfriend didn't like to have his life laid out on the blog.

An exception is the guy who was going to move from the Netherlands to France and three times, said goodbye to the blog, then had such severe anxiety attacks on the way to the plane that he couldn't travel. He did a comeback each time. He has, wisely, cancelled the move for now.

He chose to put all this into the blog!

Far more exciting to see the unfolding story.

This is the choice I hope that I would make.

Rather than fold the blog, I would think that life change would be an opportunity to dump and let it out and provide some real substance to the enterprise.

Otherwise the blog is pretty boring.

I want to know what it is like to be suddenly bald and in cubicle and trapped in their with his supervisor.

I would like to hear about the new job and the new boyfriend.

Of course, there is the privacy of others outside the blog to be considered.

Admittedly, there are times when leaving the blog world can be a good thing.

I followed a guy for a long time who had a live web cam as part of his site. Talk about being open to the world.

I learned a lot about honest blogging from him. He told virtually (!) everything.

He was a computer techie with a non-profit and dabbled in photography. Males.

Soon enough, he was posting his photographs on his blog. He began to offer prints for sale.

Later, he setup a parallel site where he had photos on line. Then video.

Eventually, he set up his own production company and now has a pretty good sized web site where he peddles, well, porn.

The blog is long past.

I don't pay to see him but I do look in every once in a while to see his progress.

It is interesting to see all this life on the web. It is not something that I would have thought would engage me. But it has. Surprises. Nice.

Labels: blog, life