Social media killed my blog, too.

I came across the following post over the weekend, and the same goes for my blog - more or less.

Social media killed my blog

As in, I don’t post much here anymore. My observations on the general state of the world have devolved into quick hits on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

I also post on Instagram, sometimes exclusively, when I get sick or tired of what the other sources feed me.

Going through my old blogroll at EJ Padero dot Com: Volume 1, it appears those are also dead or 404. The only ones barely alive, with recent heartbeats (posts) are those of cousin Ben, Petchai, and hombre Jon.

Only Star Wars (and now also WordPress) friend Oneal still has recent and regular posts on his blog, and that of what he fondly calls The Child. It could be because his better half, Reg, is a writer.

Outside any schoolwork or career/job-related reasons, why did we all start blogging in the first place? IIRC, my friend Rickey said, "Because it is always interesting to tell one's story". In the late '90s to the early noughties, blogging also meant getting to know your way around the platform you chose, and everything related to it. I've gone from push-button web publishing on GeoCities and Tripod, to coding HTML in DOS Edit or on Notepad and then uploading via FTP, to WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and then back to WordPress. Working in WordPress support has paid my bills for the past 7 years. Best job I've ever had.

Once I stop paying for the domain name, the hosting, and now also the SSL certificate, this will all be gone. My web host will delete it all, like a landlord evicts a tenant who will no longer pay rent. Why do I still keep this dead blog on life support?

I've managed to publish follow-up thoughts to this in a new post: I stifled my blog, too.