I saw these prompts on WordPress when I started getting back into blogging earlier this year and I have yet to answer one. I think it’s good to check them out for inspiration. And it’s been a while since I made a blog post so here we are.
I started blogging in 2007? I was 10 years old and I discovered the blog tab on my Bebo page and I didn’t know what it was. I remember asking someone in my family and they told me blogging was like talking about your life. So one day I sat down to write my first blog. Obviously memories change and are often romanticised but what I remember was I started blogging quite regularly. I think maybe every month or so for as long as I had my Bebo account. I guess it was short-lived because soon I was on Facebook and there were no blogs on Facebook pages.
But originally I started blogging because it was kind of my foray into journaling, it was just on a public platform. Don’t ask me what possessed me to start telling people about my life on Bebo – like I can’t even remember what I talked about at the time. School? My friends? I don’t know I just know I probably took it too seriously.
After Bebo, I found Twitter which was meant to be like micro-blogging and I liked that. Basically any thought I had in my head went on Twitter from like 2009-2014. I mean I still post there but a lot less thoughts have been posted since the heavy Twitter years. It was where I shared my love for Twilight and live-tweeted TV shows. I used it as a way to connect to people with similar interests to me, especially when no one in my real life cared about the things I did.
Along with this I also had some Tumblr years. 2010-2012 probably the hardest. I tried to use Tumblr like my old Bebo blogs so I would blog about school and GCSEs. In amongst all of the fandom reblogs, I had some serious thoughts out there. So I went back to the journaling roots.
Then after that I had a couple of different BlogSpot blogs. I tried to diversify my content so I was trying to review TV shows and books but it was mostly just me recapping them. I remember coming across Zoella’s old blog and thinking it would be cool if somehow my blog got popular like hers. Obviously that did not happen haha. This probably went along with my dream of becoming a famous YouTube vlogger. It did not pan out.
This brings us to today and my WordPress blog. I decided to create this blog to kind of put all my content in one place. Initially I was trying to post regular blog content along with Instagram photos and all my YouTube videos. And while I do still share most YouTube videos I post on my blog, I didn’t really keep up with posting Instagram photos, it felt like too much work. So if you want to see my Instagram posts, just follow me on Instagram haha.
But the reason I blog today is to share my thoughts on things. I don’t really do the journal-style blogging much anymore because I started keeping a private journal. I also don’t really feel like sharing that anymore, I used to do yearly blog posts to recap and reflect on the year but they don’t appeal to me anymore so I stopped.
I like to blog to share my thoughts on TV shows and books, I also like to share things I have done while travelling. I like the idea of travel blogging because it’s about sharing experiences but it’s also helpful to people. Really, I just blog to share things I am passionate about which is really why I post on the internet at all these days. Like isn’t that why most people blog?
Plus I like having a traditional blog like this because sometimes you need to just get words out. There’s nothing I dislike more than a novel in an Instagram caption or a notes app post on Twitter. I like to have a place like this which has a purpose.
So that’s why I blog. This was a good prompt! Sometimes I read them and think they’re a bit random or I could probably answer it in one line but yeah I liked this one. Don’t know if this will be a regular thing I do or if I will ever do one again but yeah there we go. Still after all these years of blogging I’m still struggling to end a blog post lol. Maybe one day I’ll figure that out but it won’t be today.
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