Exiting The Blogosphere: RBJ Mass Exodus
February 25th, 2008If you’re a regular reader of mine, you might recall that months ago I expressed that I was getting burnt out with my work on Rice Bowl Journals.
This had taken a more serious turn when I realized that it felt like I was suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with regards to “the bowl” (RBJ).
Now, I’ve been working on RBJ, and have started checking for broken links and dead journals and blogs. And the results are turning out to be a bit depressing.
Actually, I already covered countries Afghanistan through Cambodia. And I’m currently on the second page of China.
Have most Asians grown tired of blogging and online journaling? Because it appears that every other member has totally abandoned their site, or haven’t posted in a year or more. Now that’s downright depressing and sad.
But, I’ve been deleting and deleting… and though the number of members at RBJ may significantly go down, at least we’ll once again have a directory with valid links to journals and blogs soon.
So, are fewer and fewer people abandoning their blogs and journals? Or perhaps they jumped on the whole blogging bandwagon then decided they weren’t really writers? Or maybe they simply had gotten lazy and joined social networking sites like Facebook? Who knows…
I still get the impression that there are a lot of bloggers and online journalers and diarists out there.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:49 am
a lot of my cousins and high school classmates had xangas and livejournals when blogging was getting more attention (i thought it was so weird when i heard matt lauer say “blog”). i was excited b/c now i wouldn’t feel so bad about showing what i do to people i know in ‘real life’. anyway, now 90% of them have stopped writing. i guess it’s a combination of myspace, facebook, and loss of interest
February 25th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Hi Denise! :o)
Thank you for your thoughts. When you say 90% that is pretty sad. And I do think that maybe a LOT of people joined those social networking sites like Facebook to actually avoid having to write more serious, personal stuff… those that abandoned their blogs?
But like you mentioned, I can see it as a combination of myspace, facebook, plus a loss of interest in blogging altogether.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:37 am
i think most have moved onto social networking sites (since i think a lot of the earlier “blogs” were xangas.) it’s really sad. if you need any help, please let me know, carlos! tell me which country to start at. ;)
by the way, i must say (even if i have/haven’t already) that i really do like your color scheme …
February 28th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Aein: yeah, it’s social networking for sure, isn’t it?
thanks for appreciating the color scheme. :o)
you could help if you want… i’ve dont Afghanistan through Cambodia, and I’m currently working on China.
do you want to do Korea?
February 29th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I can help out, too! Just drop me a message and let me know.
February 29th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Thanks, man. I’ve covered everything from Afghanistan up through China. And still working on China.
Would you like to tackle Japan? Lemme know….