Over the past couple of years, one of the things that I have always wanted to do regularly is blog, however, I don't have a very fast passed life for a personal blog, and Most of my interests aren't really worth blogging about. Combine this with the range of choices of different blogging sites to choose from caused me to feel over pressured to conform with the other people I know and create a tumblr.
tumblr is great site, however it seems to be a very image heavy option. I am a person who doesn't like taking pictures very much. I also found the community hard to understand and couldn't really find a spot in which I fit in comfortably.
Then I decided that I would turn the fact of there being such choice into an advantage. I looked around and found that the host that ticks all (well, most) of my boxes is blogger. Initially I found the layout and everything rather untidy which put me off from ever returning after one or two posts. However, the recent design changes have won my heart and I can feel me living here for a while (until, perhaps I can find something that has the customisation of wordpress, and combines the simplicity of blogger).
Blogger contains the tools to get small blogs found, it's partnership with Google certainly helps with that, the options for paying for adds for your blog have never appealed to me, however you can still find readers without spending a penny.
However, I do find the lack of themes to annoy me, which is something that also got my goat about tumblr, sure there are a few themes over a variety of types, however , many of them are paid for. It makes me feel sorry for Yahoo for buying tumblr for such a price, then thinking they can make that up from selling themes for £140.
But in final notes, blogging is something that I'm going to struggle to maintain, it is something that I am going to be forcing myself to keep going between studying and trying to have a life. Let it begin.
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