# Blog? Journal? Webpage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2008, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570 "2008-06-20T08:36:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/1 "2008-06-20T08:36:31Z")
Just out of curiosity, I’m wondering how many people here have any type of journal/blog online? If so, how long have you had it and what do you mainly use it for? No blog? Maybe a family webpage, or a page about a specific interest, or a photoblog? I know a few people who have podcasts. Anyone do that? MySpace? Facebook? Anything like that? I’ve had an online journal (LiveJournal) for over five years. I’ve gotten to know a lot of people via blogging. I mostly use mine for socializing, documenting things that happen, and posting pictures. I’ve never had a MySpace. I’m on Facebook, but only for the Scrabulous 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/2 "2008-06-20T09:02:13Z")
Yes, I have a personal web site (which is my [myfirstnamelastname.com](http://myfirstnamelastname.com)) that I started mainly to post family photos, then it expanded into genealogy (complete with a family tree database). It has a blog but I don’t write a lot on it - mainly posting knitting photos or cute animal photos, etc. I also have a couple of knitting patterns that I created on my personal web page that get a few hundred hits a day. I also have a separate web site for my freelance web design business, which is mainly an online portfolio of my web design work. I have a LJ account but I haven’t posted in years. I mainly use it to join groups (such as knitting groups. ) Finally, I have MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn pages. These are mainly to keep in touch with family, friends and coworkers. I’ve had my web site for about 3 years now; my LJ for about 4 years; my MySpace for about 2.5 years and Facebook for about 1.5 years. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/3 "2008-06-20T09:54:31Z")
I briefly had a LJ for a couple of months. That was over a year ago and contained mostly the musings of nut-job. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/4 "2008-06-20T10:21:16Z")
At one time I had a personal website, mostly just to fart around with html. Got bored with it and so I let it die. I have the usual suspects - LJ, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn. I’ve been using LJ for about 8 years now, mostly to socialize with family and friends and record mundane events. I also maintain a wine community there. I’ve had a MySpace account for 4 or 5 years (and a Friendster page before that, although I never use it and don’t even know if it still exists.) I didn’t actually start ‘using’ MySpace until a couple of years ago when it seemed everyone I knew had created an account. I check it a couple of times a week as my youngest son likes to use it to communicate instead of email. I’ve been on LinkedIn for about a year, mostly to keep in touch with former co-workers and professional networking. And I finally joined Facebook about a year ago after a friend urged me to. I’d tried to join it 3 or 4 years ago, but was unable to without a college/university e-mail address and never bothered after that. I don’t use it for anything and I ‘check in’ on that site once a month or less. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/5 "2008-06-20T10:33:09Z")
I have a [website](http://www.atomicshrimp.com) - which isn’t a blog, but might as well be - I just use it to document the stuff I like doing. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/6 "2008-06-20T11:52:50Z")
I have the travel blog I put together of my trip to Ecuador a couple of years back: > **[Arriving in Quito | Travel Blog](https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/North/Quito/blog-169839.html)** > > I flew to Quito, Ecuador in South America to participate in an Earthwatch expedition, "Ecuador Cloud Forest Birds". We were going to spend two weeks ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/7 "2008-06-20T13:15:50Z")
I have a Facebook page, and also have a personal website where I keep my CV/published papers. Nothing really all that interesting. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/8 "2008-06-20T13:38:43Z")
Yeh, I’ve had a blogger blog for keeping track of my animated short film production (which is stalled for the moment, while I get my business off the ground): [‘The End’ Production Blog](http://theendmovie.blogspot.com/) Also, I have [Facebook,](http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1178524479) [MySpace](http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=60055990) and [Linkedin](http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=11848776&trk=tab_pro) which I barely ever use. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/9 "2008-06-20T13:58:57Z")
I started [a blog](http://guanolad.blogspot.com/) recently. Nobody reads it, as far as I can tell, but as I live alone and have nobody else to rant at, it’s a nice place for me to talk about crap and vent my spleen. I also have a webpage, but that hasn’t been updated in many years so isn’t worth looking at. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/10 "2008-06-20T14:39:07Z")
I’ve been on LJ for going on 5 years now. I use it basically as a diary, though most of my posts are seen by my friends list. (I actually have a second LJ for my more _ahem_ wild stories, that is read by only a very select few people.) I’ve been on MySpace for a few years, but don’t really use it. It’s mainly a point of contact for my friends and family who don’t use LJ. I just recently joined Facebook, but don’t bother with it much. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/11 "2008-06-20T15:38:06Z")
I had a diary on [DiaryLand.com](http://DiaryLand.com) starting in 1999 and then revamped in 2001. I don’t think I kept either up for more than 6 months. Then I had a DiaryLand diary for my dog. It was cute but didn’t last long. Then I had a LJ for a very brief time I think maybe in 2004. I got a MySpace page in maybe 2006. I blog there very infrequently. I got a Facebook page in 2007. I didn’t start paying attention to it in 2008. As you can tell, I am just horribly inconsistent and should not be followed on the Internet. It bores me 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/12 "2008-06-20T16:18:26Z")
I recently created a LiveJournal account specifically to post translations of the “alien language” lines spoken by Prospero in the comic [PS238](http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/). I’ve got all of his lines through the end of the fourth collection, and links to the relevant pages in the online archive, where they’ve been posted. It only has one post, which I plan to update with links and new translations as they become available. I used LJ for it mainly because the PS238 blog is on LJ, and it should be convenient for the posters there. I also have a website that has background information for some LARP games I’ve written (some town history, descriptions and contents of shops, and the like). ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/13 "2008-06-20T16:59:34Z")
I have a blog. It’s not about me, it’s about an interest of mine. I rarely let three days go by in a row without posting something. When I started it, I hoped my friends would read it and spare themselves from getting all the articles I forward to them in email, but few of my friends read it. I recently found out that my dad reads it, which I’m pretty happy about. I’ve had it for a year and a half and I enjoy it. Gives me somewhere to post my drawings when I’m in the mood. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/14 "2008-06-21T04:22:11Z")
I co-run a blog with a friend of mine. It’s not personal though, it’s a semi-commercial venture that does actually pay for itself and makes us a bit of pocket change. We use dedicated hosting rather than an established blogging site (though we do use the WordPress software.) My partner in crime does run a personal sub-blog as it were from our domain. I thought about starting one but I’m just not that interesting. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/15 "2008-06-21T04:40:49Z")
I put book reviews on line but that’s about it. I keep a pen-and-paper journal (for ~30 years now). I like writing it by hand. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/16 "2008-06-23T20:16:18Z")
Since two or three postings a year about events doesn’t really count as a journal or blog, no. Those are posted here for the amusement of my fellow dopers anyway. I have myspace and facebook accounts. Also [projammer.com](http://projammer.com) and [firstlastname.com](http://firstlastname.com) but those are pretty much cobwebsites now. I use my domains as a place to dump pics for direct linking and to test web code when I’m helping people debug for their own sites. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/17 "2008-06-23T22:53:00Z")
I have a blag now. It’s what tore me away from posting here. It’s hard to maintain that many internet things at once. Now I usually just glance here once a week or so. ---
**Author:** ![BrknButterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BrknButterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrknButterfly)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/18 "2008-06-24T02:20:43Z")
I have a myspace account and blog on that when I am bitchy and don’t give a sweet one who sees it. Though when I want to write something in depth and personal, and even more emotionally, I go to my LJ account. I have had that since 2001, but I back dated a few entries to 1998 I think. Every once in a while I will go back to 2001 or 2002 and read the old entries and think, "damn, all I do it bitch bitch bitch… " and I know at the time it was meaningful. A release. Odd how you react to yourself years later. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/19 "2008-06-24T02:33:20Z")
I have my personal/professional blog and my work/professional blog. I have a facebook account, a myspace account (that I rarely log into) and a livejournal (that I last updated over a year ago, IIRC). I also have a microblog (I"m a big Twitter user and have been for well over a year). I also have Plurk, Jaiku and FriendFeed accounts. I do have a Tumblr account, but I almost never remember about it. I’m sure there are more as well - those are just the obvious ones. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570/20 "2008-06-24T03:10:45Z")
I have a Facebook basically for professional reasons – in case I’m ever googled after a job interview, I want a clean presentation. I also keep track of college buddies there, as they are scattered around the globe. I have had a Livejournal since the dawn of time (like, 7 years ago.) I don’t post in it as often as I used to, but it still gets updates. I’ve followed certain internet friends on there for years and have found myself quite a supportive little niche. I have a MySpace which I created when my uncle died for the express purpose of reading his profile and trying to make sense of things while communicating with my bereaved aunt. I’m not a fan of MySpace. I have a Running Log. It’s about running. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-journal-webpage/453570.md?page=2)