Not to mention email, both direct and group. I throw a lot of verbiage out into cyberspace.
I'm having fun writing all this stuff, telling my stories. Really, that's why I started doing this blog thing. If I want to "be a writer", I simply have to write. And if I want to write, I should have some sort of audience and a focus. Sometimes I simply natter on, but I try to have something to say...not doing it too well at this moment. Back to the question of where and why and how different the venues are.
I started to write bits about my cycling here. Had I started it a couple of years before I did, I would have written about running. And lately I've been writing (more over on MySpace than here) about my motorcycling.
I joined MySpace why? Actually, must because I had heard about it, and because of one other person I knew. Then I started finding more people I knew and a couple I did not, mainly other cyclists. And that's when I started writing on the MySpace blog. I had an audience. I'm pretty surprised at the number of people who look, or the number of times the blog is viewed.
Facebook is more immediate for me than MySpace is. The communications are short, and notifications are quick. MySpace is more like a public bulleting board; Facebook is like leaving notes on your friends door.
And back to this Tripod blog. Why use this one? How many people read it? I don't know. But here, it's all about the writing; there are no other social aspects. Also, this is not my only Tripod blog. I run other blogs for my speech classes, and I add podcasts to them. I may add video in the future. I like the blog format because it is so easy to add things.
That's it. I've answered my own question. Good enough for today.
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