I admit it: I’m having a hard time with blogging these days.
Over the last few months I’ve put a lot of thought into whether I should continue to write, continue to share pieces of my life here, or whether I should just give it up.
When I started blogging life was so much different. I had no children, I was in college and engaged to my soldier sweetheart who was still in training. Blogging was brand new, so new that it was still kind of underground. It was a hobby only, a place for creatives to show off their design skills and a place for people to share different things about themselves. We didn’t make one cent – and I still have never made one penny – from blogging back in ’01.
But, oh, how things have changed.
My blog is now old enough to go into puberty and have baby bloggies of its own.
More importantly, my children are now old enough to hear about the things I post on Facebook or on my blog when they are in school. Last week I vented about a situation where a boy told my oldest something that hurt her feelings and, I worried, started something that will be hard to undo. She heard about it in school and felt betrayed by me. They even feel embarrassed when I post funny and good things about them.
And so I’m thinking of changing the way I do things. How do you other mommies handle this? Have you stopped blogging, just stopped sharing altogether, shared only certain things? I’m looking for advice and welcome your suggestions.
But beyond that, I don’t even know what to write about these days.
I started blogging so many years ago because I wanted our families to be able to keep up with us, I wanted to be able to cut up with my friends online, I wanted to share things about my (boring!) daily life. Now that Facebook and other means of social networking exist, what’s the point of blogging?
I’ve always been able to justify keeping the blog because I’ve used it to chronicle our lives, our day-to-day experiences, but I don’t know that I have time for that anymore. And, besides, we have Facebook for that too (I can export my timeline). I don’t use it for its original purposes anymore and I don’t make any money off of it, so why, exactly, am I keeping it up?
I just don’t know.
I'm Echo, a 30-something single mother of three, student and news editor. I have been blogging since 2001 about my trials and triumphs with life, love and motherhood. 
I’m interested to see the comments on this posts. I’ve been wondering the same thing about my blog….
The details of my family life have become pretty generic on my blog. Basically, I only write about my family (kids especially), what I would feel comfortable saying to someone in the check-out line where someone else might overhear. My dad loves reading my blog, and I still prefer it to FB, so I am not stopping soon, but… I figure as long as I am respectful of my tween’s privacy, it’s not an issue. He’s seen my blog, he’s read it, and I so far it’s been fine. We’ll see if/how that changes in the future. In which case it’ll just become *my* blog, which it was way back in the beginning, pre-kids, pre-marriage.
I think i have read since 2001 and i sure hope u continue
I still blog and post a ton of photos, but my blog is (as you know) private and people must log in to view things there. I set user levels, so people only see what I want them to see. I definitely don’t have the time to keep up with “daily blogging” but I could never actually stop blogging. I get so much joy out of reading old posts that it is worth the effort for me. I never started my blog as a way to earn money, so the fact that I’m not is totally okay with me. Do what your heart feels is right, but consider going private before not blogging at all. If you give up something that has been such a large part of your life, you’re sure to miss it.