Another odometer flip, as we've reached 6000 posts. This feature started in December of 2005 and, on average, we've averaged about 455 posts a year, although lately the pace has slowed a bit. Generally, we don't post much on the weekends any more, and there have been more open threads lately than I'd prefer, but it's still a lot.
Blogging isn't as big now as it was back in '05, primarily because social media and Twitter have swallowed up most of the potential bloggers. There's a fair amount of overlap between our readership here and my friends on Facebook, although the content here is substantially different. I do my best to stay out of politics on FB, because it's not a particularly tolerant place and many people I know who are decent and respectful in real life turn into flying monkeys when they log in to Zuckerbergia.
Is that cowardly? Shouldn't I let my freak flag fly there? I don't think so. I make a point of "liking" pictures of my FB friends, or funny things they post, but in the main I just scroll by the political rants. It's not worth engaging people on that level. But sometimes I wonder if the intemperance and intolerance of social media doesn't creep in here, at least a little bit. It seems to have creeped in everywhere else. When I look back at things I wrote, say, 10 years ago, the tone was different. I'm not always comfortable with that, but generally this is still a reasonably calm place, except when Benster is in the house.
Some, maybe most, of the people who come here these days have been coming for a decade or more. I consider most of my readers to be friends. As Gino has pointed out, friendships are still the best reason to stay in the game. I am grateful for the wisdom and good humor I receive here. Thank you for sticking with me, and the rest of us, as we continue on the eternal quest to sort things out.
5 comments:
Congratulations on 6000.
Congratulations! It appears that I need to do more music posts or something, as I've been doing this close to as long as you have, and I'm only at 2835 published. Obviously I am a slacker. :^)
Seriously, it's been a lot of fun, and we might even wonder if we've accomplished something--I guess with friends, we have.
Congratulations! It appears that I need to do more music posts or something, as I've been doing this close to as long as you have, and I'm only at 2835 published. Obviously I am a slacker. :^)
You're a lot of things, Bubba, but a slacker is not one of them. Thank you!
You're always my first internet visit of the day. Thanks for staying with it!
You're always my first internet visit of the day. Thanks for staying with it!
Thanks, John!
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