During the lead up to the decision of beginning to write a blog again , one of the constant deterrents was the thought that blogs are so old fashioned. They belong to the 2000's decade (which by the way sounds ironic as in my school days anything to do with the future was tagged as 2k-ish and now 2k seems stone age-ish). But I think blogs have their own place - we live today in an era of social networks where you are limited by time and space whereas not all thoughts cannot be restricted to 160 characters (or for that matter 280 characters). You need your free space and canvas where you give a damn to any sort of artificial character limit. My posts may very well be less than 160 characters but I should own the liberty of rambling if I need to.
Very well but do people have time to read long posts? Isn't conciseness good , isn't it synonymous with crisp clarity of thought? Maybe. In fact that is what led me to this post. On one side , I want to treat my blog as my personal diary , I do not want to bother about the content as well as the length of the content. If I am treating it as dumping ground for my own thoughts , why should length bother? It is my personal space and is meant to satisfy my soul. In fact it very well be anonymous. On the other side , there are times when you want to shout out things not to any person in particular but to the world. You do want to share stuff. And you want to do in a manner which is appealing to others , length wise , style of narration wise.
That's where in my opinion , the dichotomy kicks in - these are two different purposes , two different audiences and the posts which appeal to your inner self would possibly not appeal to others. You could very well have two different blogs. Or intersperse both kind of posts and let the audience discern. No prizes for guessing my preference :).
Very well but do people have time to read long posts? Isn't conciseness good , isn't it synonymous with crisp clarity of thought? Maybe. In fact that is what led me to this post. On one side , I want to treat my blog as my personal diary , I do not want to bother about the content as well as the length of the content. If I am treating it as dumping ground for my own thoughts , why should length bother? It is my personal space and is meant to satisfy my soul. In fact it very well be anonymous. On the other side , there are times when you want to shout out things not to any person in particular but to the world. You do want to share stuff. And you want to do in a manner which is appealing to others , length wise , style of narration wise.
That's where in my opinion , the dichotomy kicks in - these are two different purposes , two different audiences and the posts which appeal to your inner self would possibly not appeal to others. You could very well have two different blogs. Or intersperse both kind of posts and let the audience discern. No prizes for guessing my preference :).
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