I have three letters for you — TMI.
Let’s talk stats here for a minute. Of the 100 sites I’ve created, only about 30% started out with true purpose. The rest were all personal sites that were going to be about my general musings, and so quite unstructured and without real purpose. So I shared. The good and the bad. The funny and the (what I thought was) funny. My heartache and my tears. My dreams and aspirations. And then, before you know it, it suddenly gets too personal.
People ask me to give them the link to my blog and I’m thinking, but wait, no, there’s that one post I don’t ever want them to read. That wouldn’t go down well, and I don’t want any problems with this person. They know enough, and if they read that post, they’d know too much. So much panic. And so I end up not giving them a link. But I want readers. I want people to read my blog, and I want feedback, and interaction, because otherwise I would’ve just kept a personal diary.
And so I created a hundred more, under pen names, and more fake names, wrote about a wider range of topics, thinking that I’d get this feedback from strangers who happened to come across my blogs. Of course there was feedback, and of course it happened once in a blue moon. So I’d lose the motivation to write, because no one’s reading, dammit! And so I’d create another. And another. It soon turned into a vicious cycle. I’d abandon a blog (never delete, because that blog had some good posts, you know?) when it got too personal, or too much, and move on to the next, where I’d do the exact same thing. I’m sorry, fellow WordPressers, for taking up a bunch of site names that I can neither remember anymore nor care about at this point.
I’m breaking the cycle. This is the first time a blog is directly connected to my real name and ID. Hopefully this breaks the spell of abandoned sites, and I can finally truly write for myself, as myself.
P.S- Hundred is an exaggeration, okay?
P.P.S- I guess I should extend that apology to Blogspot and Xanga users as well.