I can’t handle social media anymore. The quick cash grab captions are just too difficult! Maybe I need 1,000 words to tell my story about how I thought I peed myself walking up the stairs one morning last week but I actually started my period? Why limit me? I’m an autistic enneagram 8 and I will overexplain anything I possibly can. Needing to limit myself for short Instagram captions takes a lot of effort to refine, edit, edit, edit some more, then barely swing a post that lands exactly at the character limit while eliminating 90% of what I really wanted to say. So then I just don’t try and instead put up some short one liner with no emotion or just say fuck it and don’t post anything at all.
So here I am. Back in the ol’ blogging world. I know blogs are dead but I’m going to do this anyway. It’s nice to get back to writing something with sustenance. Maybe not useful sustenance, but at least something that takes longer than 30 seconds to read. I don’t think I’ve written anything longer than an Instagram caption since I finished my master’s degree? Unless texts to my best friend counts. I have to copy and paste the text into a note to respond to those because they can get very wordy.
But why blogging? Well, even if I could tolerate the IG limitations, the algorithm is an absolute fuck no. I’m not playing that game. It’s just been a gentle slide downhill since they took away the option for the feed to be chronological. YouTube is just…too much for me. I can quickly put in a voice memo to myself to copy/paste to a blog, but I can’t quickly video anything. I can easily arrive to work five minutes early, intentionally choose to not give an extra five minutes to big corporate, and instead sit on my phone typing up a quick something. Also, it’s a little something to look forward to on my lunch break when I’m not getting a walk in. And that’s it, that’s all the apps I’m familiar with. I don’t do tiktok, Snapchat, or anything else. I can’t even name any more and feel so old to be saying I just don’t understand the new technology. I still can’t figure out how to change the timing of all my photos at once on a reel so they synch up and have googled it by typing “how to change photo timing on reels all at once” even knowing I only need to type in key words and I still can’t figure it out. I don’t have time and more importantly, I don’t have the desire.
Anyways, feel free to follow along if you’d like! I will not share recipes with my life story attached, pictures of my kids’ faces, or filter myself too much. I absolutely will ramble on (see: entire post above), talk about all my various hobbies (gardening, herbalism, plant based/gluten free eating, home renovations, hiking, camping, backpacking, reading, puzzles), share some aspects of parenting, using too many parenthesis (apparently it’s a neurodivergent thing) and overall this blog will be a giant mishmash of my life that won’t fit into any niche aside from being a true lifestyle blog. Remember those? The ones that didn’t require you to post about one specific thing? I’m trying to bring that back, friends!
If you blog, please share below! If you’ve followed me on IG and want to know more about anything I’ve posted about before, let me know.
I will probably never comment again but I’m happy you’re blogging!!
I blog!! I share every single element that you brought up in your first writing. 🙂 I unfortunately speak even less tech than you, and have Blogger manage my blog platform for me. But I think it’s good enough. I’m not trying to monetize it, it’s just for fun, and writing helps me process things. The blog is for me as much as it’s for everyone else (mostly my 3 followers).
Yes, I do read and love yours!! I should have stayed with blogger. That’s who I used to use. I regret going with WordPress, I still can’t figure it out haha
I’m so excited!! It’s good to see you back into blogging!
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