As I have been catching up on blogs today I have come across many that have posted about changes not only in the blogging world but, people changing why they blog or what they blog about because they think it is expected of them.

I think I started blogging sometime in 2000 when I bought my first domain and I just kind of stumbled into it. I had seen a few blogs (but, really back then they were “personal websites”) and I thought that writing online in a journal so to speak would help me vent all of my life frustrations.

There weren’t nearly as many blogs as there are now and it was like we were our own little world where everyone knew everyone else and you were totally in tune with their lives. Everyone wrote about what was going on in their lives that day even if it was just something like “I went to work, had a Pepsi for lunch and am doing laundry before bed”. You wrote for yourself about things that mattered to you.

Now there are so many blogs and people feel like they have to write like a professional and choose topics that would appeal to certain demographics that will in turn boost their page rank. People feel as if they have to pick a subject for their blog to just be about, they feel pressured to make money from their blog just to justify having one.

I feel as though the changes in the blog world are what has deterred me from consistantly blogging for the past few years. I felt like I just couldn’t be me and I HAD to do all those things to be an “in” blogger that I really didn’t have an interest or the ability to put the time or effort into.

Now I’m more of the mentality that I am going to do what I first created my blog to do express my thoughts about my life & things that interest me even if nobody comments, reads my entries or really even gives a damn.