Hi I’m Lynsey. I have been blogging on and off and in various forms since 2006. I went from using Blogger for my first ever blog, to MySpace, then WordPress and back to Blogger. I was a prolific tweeter, sharing almost my every random thought with the world (microblogging is still blogging) and social media was definitely my bag. However over the past year or so, I’ve been posting far less than I used to, including stopping using some platforms altogether.
What caused me to seemingly fall out of love with it? Well,
there’s a couple of reasons. In the case of the bird app, I got sick of it at
the height of the pandemic. It had become a complete sewer long before then,
but I still persevered with it in the belief that there was still some of that
funny, nerdy and friendly sense of community that was there when I first joined
it. In the end it got too much, I hated what it had become and how it made me
feel. I set it to private, but never deleted it as I might have still wanted it
to DM friends I’d made on there. Yes, I probably should get around to deleting
my profile on there now.
In the case of other platforms, I just lost interest in
posting. I became more of a lurker on Facebook, popping up to like posts and
wish people Happy Birthday but rarely posting any statuses. Now that my feed on
the site has become a sea of suggested posts and hardly any from my actual
friends or “liked” pages, I’m going on there even less. As for Instagram, I’ve
posted twice on my main grid in the past 18 months and became almost solely a
“stories” poster for a bit. Now I’m a lurker and liker on there too, with the
occasional comment.
And Wordpress? I
abandoned my blog on there as I felt that it was now geared too much towards
those blogging for business, not those blogging for a hobby like I had been.
Plus it’s getting harder to be able to use that platform as a free user. I used
to be a paying user on its cheapest subscription when I was blogging more
regularly and even bought my own web address for it. Now I’m setting up on Blogger
again, with its free blogspot url and its choice of now basic but still
functional layouts and themes. I feel like it’s 2006 again and I love it.
I don’t know how regularly I will be posting on here, but I’m
not going to pressure myself into posting something, however random like I did
in the past. I wrote the bulk of this at the beginning of May and it’s only now
on the 22nd that I am publishing it online after making a few edits.
No posting in haste and regretting it later, not here or on social media. Here’s
to establishing a more healthier relationship with social media and for blogging
because I enjoy it again.
