Why people age out of online blogging

Aug 26, 2016 18:30

Two very important related factors:
The valuation of privacy, and the devaluation of history.

Example 1:

You're an adult with a career now. You mind your online presence much more closely. Also, it's much much harder to be anonymous on the internet, now that search engines can correlate almost everything you do and show those correlations to ( Read more... )

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pigshitpoet August 27 2016, 02:37:07 UTC
ha-hah!

i've been here since 2006 and i might just well die here..

; )))

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pigshitpoet August 27 2016, 02:40:44 UTC
actually i think your examples are way of base, it's simple economics, twitter gets you more attention, Facebook gets you more transparency, the real reason is google redirecting hits to commercial venues. this buries the blogs in the .01 percentile. that and the disappearance of tens of thousands of blogs being censored off the seo. the devaluation is in currency. the inflation is in self-importance of smartphone zombies.

; )))

oh yes, and one of my blogging friends just up and died, but his blog still exists, so go figure..

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garote August 27 2016, 02:56:36 UTC
Well, we can both be right. :)

But what do you mean about Facebook getting more 'transparency'?

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pigshitpoet August 27 2016, 04:56:16 UTC
well, when you sign on they want your full i.d. and contact info, which they monitor very strictly, so as not to allow creeping or trolling, or hacking or i.d. theft, being that so many people have very personal information on FB, then they proceed to try to connect you with every tom dick and mary in your location, ie. do you know jane? click on jane if you know jane... so you have to be transparent with your activities or they simply block you from their service. the hypocrisy of that is that if you want to browse FB you need to register an id and log in. so, they know where you live and they know who you are all the time ( ... )

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ex_juan_gan August 27 2016, 03:36:43 UTC
Wiping is stupid, I think. Just change the access level. I think.

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garote August 29 2016, 23:15:18 UTC
Well, if you change it to the point that only you can access it, then you might as well wipe it. :D

So there must be some middle ground still, where there are people in your social life that you trust enough to write intimate things to them, otherwise what's the point?

But couldn't those intimate conversations just happen over email, or in person?

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ex_juan_gan August 30 2016, 00:22:09 UTC
Oh no! Imagine rereading your writings, like, 10 years from now. It's like talking to a long-forgotten relative.

OTOH, yes, you can create levels of access. I have about 4 in my lj. Some texts are for relatives, or for very close friends. Or, ok, just for myself.

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garote August 30 2016, 00:42:34 UTC
*nod* Makes sense. But that doesn't leave much for 'public' viewing.

That's the problem I'm having these days - there isn't a whole lot I can talk about "as it develops", i.e. before my opinions/emotions are settled about it and I can say what I really intend to say, or approve of saying.

It's the "as it develops" stuff that is often the most interesting for people to read, but it's also the most risky, or sometimes the most private.

I mean, god forbid some H.R. person would go browsing back through all this and find something that doesn't align with The Cultural Values Of The Company or something, and deny me a job...

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bluebear2 August 29 2016, 01:51:16 UTC
There was an idea in the late '90s that blogs were going to change the world. That full disclosure of everything would get rid of oppression. Lots of things.

Of course some of it is true, some blogs have made a huge difference in some fields. Previously oppressed people now can have a voice. Still, those who want to damage you or profit from you have way too much material they can work with.

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garote August 29 2016, 23:17:10 UTC
Right. So, in a way, this is a generational thing.

The people who are old enough to remember what the internet used to be like, are in danger of assuming it's still that way, and making some stupid privacy-destroying mistake.

The younger generation has no illusions about how vulnerable they are, and no weird ideals about how online existence "should" go, so they lock things down, and tolerate oceans of garbage.

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jayeeryk August 30 2016, 03:01:28 UTC
Certainly as commented wherein more can be added as to reasons why, but I do think you're on point.

I just joined lj after a long hiatus (5 - 6 years) as I was a lifer Open Diary member.

I was feeling nostalgic, back on od, My best friend and I essentially wrote entries for one another. Very cryptic; to the layman, most responses in comments where of the 'wtf' variety. That ended up amusing us greatly and both our od's took off from a popularity standpoint.

Long story short, he left the site, and our friendship came to an unexpected end. Obviously at that point, my heart wasn't in it to be funny or weird anymore. Not long after, od was gone and the era had ended.

Now, with work and stress and health issues etc... I find myself longing for those days, and so I joined here looking to rekindle a little of that magic (if at all possible) simply to benefit my own mental state.

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