Exiting The Blogosphere: RBJ Mass Exodus

If 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.