I started blogging on Livejournal back in 2002 and wrote my little heart out for a good five years. What happened? Social media, fast food for word lovers. When Friendster came out I ran like a lemming to that platform, but still found a need for my trusty Livejournal because it allowed me to soapbox for my closest personal friends. Next up was Orkut, but it was never stuck because I was already knee deep in Friendster and I didn’t like the professional bent of Orkut. Somehow LinkedIn worked for me because it didn’t mix the lines of social and professional networking.
I suppose the exodus from LiveJournal happened around the time Myspace added blogging. For a while I was replicating posts between Myspace and LJ, but one day that just stopped and poor LJ became a ghost town. Right as I became fed up with Myspace and was thinking about going back to my first blogging love, Facebook came along all shiny and new. I scoffed at it after my brief affair with Twitter, which felt like LJ for twits. I tried to ignore FB for as long as I could stand it, but as it hit critical mass I started to think that maybe the 100 people who had zinged me with invites were onto something. Like the rest of you, I became hopelessly addicted to the allure of socializing with local and remote friends from the comfort of my very own home, but the bite size posts have always left me desiring more.
Even as my desire to blog about personal things waned, I still loved writing about security issues, but for some reason it never felt very sexy to write about PCI compliance. After I stopped working in censorware, I was recruited into a very mature security startup back in 2007 and quite honestly, writing technical documents and software requirements killed my love of writing. I am on day two of voluntary unemployment and I’m hoping this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship with WordPress.
