¿Dónde está el afterparty?
Back in the Dark Ages when I started this blog, there wasn't a hell of a lot of this gosh-durn newfangled "social networking" stuff on these here internets. I mean, there were message boards and stuff, email lists. But it felt, at the time, that blogging was The New Best Way to connect with people.
That was more than three and a half years ago, which is something like four geological epochs in Internet Years, isn't it?
A lot of the people I connected to when I first started blogging were in that same blogging cohort with me -- we all started blogging within six months of each other. Some of the people that I got to know well joined the blogging party later, but I've been away for so long, not making the effort to click through or find new people, that I no longer have any idea what the current landscape looks like. Are there newly discovered shores of Blogland, these days? Are there new territories being discovered? Do you find yourselves still making new friends in Blogland, or consolidating friendships already made? Are you even still blogging regularly? Have you moved on?
It's a little disorienting, re-entering blogging after so long. There are so many other places to meet and connect with online friends now. Blogging still seems like the most reasonable way to handle extended meditations on the detritus of daily life (does anyone read those now, or is everyone else suffering from the same amazing shrinking attention span that I am?), but I'm not at all convinced that a pixie party would coalesce around a blog anymore. Are there blog-related places where y'all hang out for conversation these days? Or have you mostly gone on to Facebook or Twitter or something?
Give it to me straight, you guys (all 10 of you who are still checking my long-dormant feed, I mean): where's the party now?
That was more than three and a half years ago, which is something like four geological epochs in Internet Years, isn't it?
A lot of the people I connected to when I first started blogging were in that same blogging cohort with me -- we all started blogging within six months of each other. Some of the people that I got to know well joined the blogging party later, but I've been away for so long, not making the effort to click through or find new people, that I no longer have any idea what the current landscape looks like. Are there newly discovered shores of Blogland, these days? Are there new territories being discovered? Do you find yourselves still making new friends in Blogland, or consolidating friendships already made? Are you even still blogging regularly? Have you moved on?
It's a little disorienting, re-entering blogging after so long. There are so many other places to meet and connect with online friends now. Blogging still seems like the most reasonable way to handle extended meditations on the detritus of daily life (does anyone read those now, or is everyone else suffering from the same amazing shrinking attention span that I am?), but I'm not at all convinced that a pixie party would coalesce around a blog anymore. Are there blog-related places where y'all hang out for conversation these days? Or have you mostly gone on to Facebook or Twitter or something?
Give it to me straight, you guys (all 10 of you who are still checking my long-dormant feed, I mean): where's the party now?
posted by Phantom Scribbler at 10:47 AM 
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