This Is My Life, So There! (and other ramblings from someone you don't care about.)
My name is Tim Ryan, I’m in my twenty’s and have been blogging around the internet since 2000. As a younger “adult” I held my blog on a once popular site known as Xanga. Boy, those sound like old days… My blog (now removed) was quite popular. These days, though may sound sad, were my golden days as a high-school kid who normally kept to himself. I loved my blog world friends, my robotic friends from all around the world. I missed them when I was offline. I thought about them throughout the day. Felt so secure when I was chatting or blogging to them. The comment box was like a coffee shop, and chat rooms were like the park, or a bar… which sometimes turned in to really gross bars. Hey, the blog even landed me a really nice job working in radio! …but that is another story for another day.
After a while though, I took a step away from the real blogging world. Sometimes I missed it, sometimes not. Then websites like Twitter started popping up and that sort of kept the fire alive. Micro-blogging. In these years without blogging, I lost touch with many of my online friends, but learned to gain real “in your face” friends. I found that to be really hard. See, with online friends you can log in and hang out. Maybe send a text throughout the day… but you were still free to do your own thing. With real live friends that just took so much more effort! Not that I didn’t put effort into my online friendships, but it was just… different.
So here we sit today and I am writing a blog. I doubt it will ever see success. Maybe not even a single read. But I feel like it’s time to start writing again. I am ready to start telling stories again. I've come to a site like Tumblr where there are not necessarily comment boxes, but better readability. It reminds me of my original home, Xanga. Original, fun… intense. If you are reading along, please feel free to follow, I’d love to hear your feedback on anything. Even if it's read or follow your blog.
I am going to try a different approach to blogging this time. I hope you stick around; I’ll have some pretty interesting stories coming!
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