To Blog or Not to Blog

Oh my God, mas Fatih, please dont continue. quit blogging and gender issue? survey taken from three respondent only? totally insufficient data. u are developing hypothesis from weak premises. please don’t hurt me with ur conclusion.

in my case, perhaps u shud blame John Francis too. His 17 years record of no talking has inspired me to lessen the amount of time i dedicate to talk or write to people. instead, i try to write and talk more to my self now. and John Francis is no woman, mas.

Besides, i dont totally quit blogging. i still am actively blog walking although to only few blogs now. i closed down my personal blog. and considering to close down my facebook and friendster as well. Cyber space isn’t safe world anymore now, BBC said. hehe, kidding. I just think i over expose my self to people i dont know. that’s bad. mama said dont talk to strangers

but i still have http://blog.nurhasan.net kok.

to the other two women who quit blogging, hm..what shud i say. a woman gota do, what a woman wants to do. so, good luck!

I think it’s back to the blog owner’s intention when they decide to blog in the first place. I know there are at least 2 women bloggers who (hopefully still) blog but now only for restricted readers. I don’t know their reasons, but it’s quite interesting to see this phenomenon.

Emang… kalo nggak ada yang kita dapat dari ngeblog, mendingan berhenti. Saya makanya tetap bertahan ngeblog sampai sekarang karena ada penghasilan tambahan yang saya dapat. Maaf mungkin ini kelihatan seperti materialistis, tapi itulah kenyataannya…

Popularitas, materi, kepuasan batin, network, komunitas dan mengasah kemampuan menulis (baik bhs Indonesia maupun Inggris) mungkin menjadi alasan kenapa tetap ngeblog…bagi sebagian orang.

Mas, kalo mau bikin link di blogger yang munculnya di new window/new tab gimana mas? Txs sebelumnya

i just blogging for fun.

some people take blogging too personally. when their writings are criticized they might think they are being attacked. I have heard or people who have never even met who became enemies. These are a few things that might happen in the blogging world.

Good things happen too, like getting new friends, having your writings appreciated, honing your writing skills, getting a job or business opportunities because of your blog and so on.

I don’t know the reason why these three women decided to quit blogging. Personally I think it’s a shame when someone has talent and a mind full of ideas and opinions but chooses to keep it to themselves. However it the personal decisions of these three women and I respect it.

Myself, I would never stop completely or keep my blog private but that is because I am too ‘cuek’, I dont care if people stop coming to my blog, or if I am criticized or even if I get negative feedbacks or comments. I blog for myself, and unless I am too busy, I will try to maintain my blogs and update it as often as I can.

But like Anita said, we know what we are getting into when we started blogging and putting our opinion for the world to see, and when the going gets tough, it sucks, but it’s a part of our blogging growth, so to speak.

maybe emotional things influence her decision to do so.Why don’t we just respect it and try to encourage her to come back.Everyone has it’s own reason to do everything.

that’s right brothas and sistas. you do what you gotta do. do what you think more important. real life is out there.

for me blogging is a thing to keep my mind occupied. i don’t want to idle my brain on routine. though i think i’ve made more enemies than friends coz some of my opinions. some email me their dislikeness. but heck, i just spit out what i thought. guess i shall erase my posts if i join a political party in future.

btw om fatih, i saw bidvertiser referral on this blog. i’m quite sure you have more than 2 blogs. can you please tell their urls? so i know which ideas for main or side blogs.

wah klo aku mungkin ngeblog sekedar iseng, tpi klo kedepannya bisa ngasilin ya alhamdulilah bgt……………….(semoga aja, amin)

Hmm … i see, pretty complicated actually. But because of that, i can know what she / he try to gain from blogging.

For me, blog is a blank paper that we have to fill. We’re free to fill it with anything we want and anytime, of course. It’s not a time-wasting job, so just make blogging is our second life in cyber-world, that’s it. Of course we can gain something from blog, but for me “the freedom” is everything in blogging.

Hehe, sorry if i said a wrong thing, but i still human who can make a mistake. I’m sorry for that. For the attention, yeah maybe we have to consider about new blogger (i’m still new actually ^^, try my blog please), because probably there is (or even there are) interesting topic there. So, just try …

A niche blog.
365 days.
Almost 150 posts.
Hundreds of comments.
Hundreds of comment replies.
Hundreds of articles to read.
Discussions.
Several debates.

Politics, religions, social issues, human rights issues, technology, design, and so forth — do people actually think that these are easy subjects!?
Not to mention constantly discovering blogs that are plain hateful, posting snarky remarks concerning a certain religion, social status, and yeah, a certain stereotype. Mine.

Be honest people, looking at the majority of bloggers, their personal characteristics, their lifestyle and the typical blog content that they provide — am I actually one of these majority of bloggers?

Blah.

I, as a human being, deserve to feel tired. Even though this might sound a bit selfish, but it would be so much better if I could just find more local niche bloggers that resonate the same voice, share the same causes, and carry the same weight on their shoulders.

Oh, and my career life has nothing to do with blogging. Hope people would stop assuming that I’m actually gaining any profit from blogging. Aside from blogging, apparently I am also ’studying’ online, almost 24/7 grappling with essays, papers and documents concerning human rights issues. In short, more harsh stories from around the globe.

Anyways I’m not going to quit blogging — typical eh? But I will definitely minimize my expectation of other bloggers. They generally have different orientation, different purpose in blogging, and they shouldn’t have to deny it in the first place.

Bottom line, this isn’t exactly about blogging, isn’t it? It’s simply about one person not having the same ideals as everyone else’s.

Thanks for the post, pak Fatih.

Perhaps it was the reason for quitting blogging …. The reason to quit blogging at the above example was: no traffic? I thought blogging keeps us practicing our analytical and writing (and typing skill), traffic or not.

Traffic? Oh, the Journal has traffic alright.
Feel free to check it yourself at Alexa, Google PageRank or similar sites.

However, please differentiate between traffic in Web 2.0 sense, and traffic in the communal sense. What I’m referring to is ‘traffic’ in a real life sense. Simply put, this is not me building a community just for the Journal. This is me finding communities that relate to the Journal’s content. When I say ’sepi’, it’s because I can’t find those that understand what it takes to write in THAT niche! Only very few people could understand how serious these subjects are. And how serious it could be for me, as a person with a real name, real life, out there.

Sheesh. The next thing I know, I’d be posting cooking recipes in my blog. Just for what people assume as traffic.

To make this easier to understand, please google the phrase: cyber activism. Cyber activism also has been using blogs as the media. Given the choice, cyber activists-to-be would prefer to be appreciated as cyber activists, rather than bloggers. Why? With all due respect, maybe because some content are just too damn heavy, too damn diplomatic, or too damn refined for (the majority of) bloggers.

As a matter of fact, why don’t Pesta Blogger create a new category of blogging: CYBER ACTIVISM? I bet there are great young bloggers out there that are also concerned with politics and social issues in the country or even internationally, right? And I am quite sure that these bloggers have better content and resources more than I do.

In addition, please note that activism is obviously not just a topic for female bloggers, it’s for the mass.

PS: About part-time bloggers. I’d like to clarify that the Journal is not a monetized blog. We don’t do AdSense tips or internet marketing niche in general. It has AdBrite banners (on pages, not posts) and one Amazon widget but only because they look cool.
Thanks before.

I think your blog have a loyal reader since it was not for profit.So why quit ? you still can blogging while doing your job ,just take a time to give us a read.And Mr.Fatih has promoted you here..thanks to him ,always support indonesia blogger that write in english.

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Lolz
hope its not a sign of PMS
lol kiddin’

@ Yehia

I wished it was!
I’ve been (subtly) trying to get the point forward for months now, so ..it has been a long wait. At least PMS only happens once a month.

Basically this was about me being ‘trapped’ in the wrong circle of bloggers.

@ all

Blogging politics, toxic negativity and its overall competitive nature. Beuh, cape ah! Life’s hard already, so why make it any harder?

Apakah blog saya sepi? Yes! Malah lebih parah sepinya, because I’ve stepped out of that I-rant-on-your-blog-you-rant-on-my-blog circle.

But I am happier. So tell me, what matters most in life?

Thanks for the advices and happy blogging everyone. Pak Fatih, sorry for mess I’ve left in your blog.

to blog or not to blog

dibalik segala alasan seolah ada keterpisahkan hal yang publik dan yang personal. padahal hal personal dan hal yang publik harus berjalan pararel. kedua penting, keduanya pokok.

bahkan saya teringat dalil feminis

personal is political….