Restart (2018)
Everyone agrees: blogs are back in style. Even though I was never really a "blogger," I always had some kind of page where I shared random stuff and opinions. Then Twitter showed up.
Twitter replaced the blog. For a while, it made me think in 140 characters. I was constantly trying to frame what I experienced IRL into a funny tweet. That ended up affecting how I read and wrote: I couldn't focus on longer texts anymore. At that time, keeping a blog wasn't even on my mind.
For the past few years I've barely been on Twitter. I rarely read the timeline, I tweet even less, and I no longer think about how to turn my experiences into posts. At some point, I started uploading iPhone photos to Instagram and following people who shared great pictures. Instagram quickly became my favorite social network – I didn't just upload photos, I also joined Instameets, met a lot of amazing people, and even hosted one myself in Lüneburg.
Even though I eventually bought the domain pzumk.blog, blogging – for me and if I'm correct for many others – was put on hold. After all, Google killed their great RSS Reader and everyone was on Twitter and/or Instagram. So why keep blogging?
Over the past few years, I've deleted more and more of my own content from the internet – mostly old, unused accounts on different sites, but also tweets, Facebook posts, and Instagram photos. In early 2018, I wiped all my tweets, posts, and a big chunk of my photos – thinking of it as a small restart. Sure, I've been tweeting a little again lately (with more than 140 characters available now), but it still doesn't feel quite right.
Long story short:
I want to start putting more stuff online again. That's why I set up a new WordPress blog and hooked it up to my domain. What exactly will happen here in the future – we'll see.
I'm looking forward to it.
(There won't be a comment section under my posts. Normally I'd point to Twitter for replies, but I've recently started using Mastodon and would be happy to meet you there. A separate post about Mastodon might follow.)