bloggingthing. I started to document my
lifeonline when I was thirteen years old — ten years ago, when I created an Xanga account. When I was around sixteen years old I migrated to Live Journal with a bunch of my other Xanga folks. Finally, when I was 19-20 I created Blogger. I still have a private LJ account where I go to write more personal thoughts that I don't really feel comfortable letting Google index LOL.
Writing/typing my thoughts out has always been therapeutic to me... it's my way to express myself, vent, share things, rant, document random moments in my life, etc. I can't tell you how many times I've gone back TEN YEARS (yes, sadly my Xanga is still up LOL — I'd feel sad deleting it) and read posts from when I was in 8th grade, dealing with typical middle school/teenage things. Or posts from when I was pregnant with my daughter. Or just look back on posts to confirm certain dates of events, etc. I love being able to do that.
However in the past couple of years I've noticed
blogginghas turned into more of a business thing. There are people that make a living off of this stuff (which is AWESOME)! And sometimes I wonder, am I stuck in the old ways of utilizing a blog? A friend of mine wants to start a blog but was complaining about not knowing what to blog about, and trying to think of a theme and a way to brand herself. I have never thought about it in that way at all, I just... write. But that conversation is what really made me start thinking about how this whole blogosphere world works nowadays.
themearound here. However, I have noticed that my more popular posts are the DIY hair care/skin care type of posts. So I was wondering if I should just make a completely separate blog for that, or just keep things how they are...
My questions are: What do you prefer to read? Do you think a blog should have a
themeand stick to content related to that? I love both theme-blogs and personal ones, but that's just me. I'm wondering how others feel about this.
12 comments:
Personally, I have always and will always love lifestyle blogs. I love to read about the lives of others and their day to day musings. I agree with you, most of the blogs these days are about giveaways and sponsored posts and that's ok. I'm generally drawn to those that of blogs that can also incorporate a portion of their REAL life occurrences as well. To me, that just makes their blog seem a lot more authentic and relatable.
With a lifestyle blog, I think you can incorporate anything that you want as long as you find the appropriate wording for it.
I don't really consider my blog "themed" either. I just share what I feel like sharing :P My blog preference is pretty open to anything. Some blogs I read for the purpose (crafts, fashion, organizing) & some blogs I read personal blogs to get a feel for the actual person (their likes, recommendations, opinions on things). Sometimes I don't mix the two (if I want a recipe, I personally don't care to hear what's going on with your brother in law's best friend's cousin's wife), BUT then other times I like reading about the person who posts recipes. Its weird, lol.
I really appreciate this blog post, because it's honest and I know everyone can relate in some type of way.
I've been blogging since about 05/06. Then I started femmeswithbenefits.com in like 10/11, with the idea of building a network for other young women. The only reason why I started my own personal blog is because I like talking about life, my life, and the things that I've always wondered and have ended up discovering. So I started kimberlyluxe.com. I do sometimes get conflicted between this hobby and side hustle only because I have gotten approached to do different projects & reviews, in which, I am paid for.
I do, however, only read (98% of the time) lifestyle blogs. But I do know where you are coming from and I appreciate you posting this ;].
Kimberly
KIMBERLYLUXE.COM
I like reading a little bit of everything. I love a personal blog, & I guess I've fallen off on it too. I can say 140 characters easily, but to create a blog post with the intention of making sure there is a reader or someone can relate. I've been so stuck on people being interested instead of sharing it all.
I like to read everything, you can post how your feeling and in one way or another it can easily affect another person as well. I also started my blog at 18 I personally keep my blog more fashion DIY related and sometimes my personal business it doesn't hurt to share those things most important to you. Great post.
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I am pretty much like you when it comes to blogging. At first, I wanted a blog for each "subjet" I talked about. Like, I didn't want to bombard my personal blog with constant makeup talk..but why not? Its a part of me and what I love, so now I just clutter one blog with everything about me (: Its a lot less of a hassle. My other blog is now dedicated to my graphic design progress (but only because it was required of us, but Ive grown to love it).
I personally do not like having a "type" of blog. It puts a lot of pressure on you, and I think it would get old for me. If you want to do DIY posts more often, I would just have something on your page that takes the readers to all of your diy entries. Remember how having 2 ljs never worked out? Imagine a blogspot account. Buena sweater my love.
I like the way your blog is now. You always have a variety of things you post about which makes it that more interesting as opposed to having another blog focusing on one subject.
In addition, what makes a good blog is thatthe reader is able to relate and identify witht he author in many ways.
Right now I'm loving lifestyle blogs with DIY etc. Loved your last post BTW!
Blogging is different for everyone. I don't knock anyone with how they choose to express themselves. For me, I've been around and blogging since 05 with Live Journal and I've progressed along the years. I currently have 2 separate blogs. 1 is my personal blog (sincerely daja) that takes a look into my life. The other is my business blog (noboizallowed.com) which is a women empowerment website in which I blog about EVERYTHING related to women/young girls.
I think if you find a niche that you love, why not create something that can fund you. After all, when you do what you love for a living you'll never have to work a day in your life. It takes time but it's fun and oh so worth it.
Miss Daja
No Boiz Allowed
I don't necessarily have a theme for my blog either, because I feel like I would be restricting what kinds of things I want to post. A little bit of everything is nice to read, other wise every blog would be the same! I once thought about creating a separate blog and making it themed but realized theres no point, I like having all of my stuff in one place.
I know how you feel. Sometimes I ask myself--should I focus on one thing? Should I start a seperate blog? But everything that I talk about is what I care about. So lifestyle blogging is for me.
I am so late on this but I had to comment anyway. I feel like all of us old school bloggers reached a point where our style of blogging became outdated to the masses and we looked around like 'wait, why weren't we getting paid for this?!' .. I sometimes miss blogging but then I remember - no one reads anything that isn't about beauty/fashion these days.
I hate to say it but I think gone are the days where people actually read blogs. The majority of readers that were introduced to blogging through this beauty/fashion/celeb gossip wave simply scroll through and stop to read a few lines when a picture catches their eye. The majority of people still reading lifestyle blogs are people like you and I, the few that blogged before anyone even knew how to pronounce blog lol.
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