I’ve never been good at following “how to’s” unless it’s a complicated recipe that I need to experiment on. Sure, sometimes they make life easier but it is different from following rules that you have set yourself to do. The step-by-step-numbered rules bore me. I wonder if I am alone in this because sometimes I do encounter blog posts like how to learn to be happy or how to be a good writer or how to make your blog more popular(taken from the point of view of the author of course) but in real life we each have certain criteria and values that we wish to meet that we think assure us of happiness and success. It is like reading a highly recommended book but you find it boring. Short of saying “to each his own” we have our way of coping and facing what is in front of us. The way you look at things probably depends on how you view life itself. As they always say, you could see a glass half-full or half-empty. It does not matter whether you’re 30 or 50, maturity comes not in the number you add to your age but in the richness of experience you encounter making you grow and learn a little more.
Now and then, I link some posts at Facebook just to share with some friends who just want to click it and read. I was never sold to the idea though of linking it to the app NetworkedBlogs. Although WordPress is public too, it has a different set of writers/bloggers/readers and compared to Facebook which is so noisy, I feel safe at WordPress. Getting across your message to people who love the written words as you do is vastly different from seeing selfies and pictures that speak of what one had for breakfast to where they had dinner all in the same day. My wall and timeline are set to friends only and I don’t allow my updates to be made public. There are things that you don’t normally share in cyberspace.
The other day, I finally decided to export my blog and copy it to my external hard drive. It is quite scary to lose all of the 1,597 posts and all the five years of blogging coming to naught so I followed the advice of a blogger friend, looked at the tools and downloaded export file. I’d like to do the same with my other three blogs. If you haven’t done it yet, I also suggest you do, for safety.
A friend once said that blogging has become a way of life, do you agree?
I love this post! You have probably put into words how many of us feel.
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Thanks a lot Julie. I hope you and your family are doing well.
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Blogging does indeed become a way of life Arlene. It becomes a part of you, in a way that nothing else compares to, certainly not Facebook.
As for saving the work, you can also copy and post the entire blog onto a word document, and send it to yourself as an e mail. But your hard-drive solution is better.
Regards as always, Pete.
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Thank you Pete. Blogging is self-expression and we learn so much from other bloggers too. As for saving the blog posts, my old computer is always not in the mood to cooperate so i think it is better to be safe.
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Agree 😊 I just posted another entry and I felt silly as if I am talking to somebody knowing that there’s little to no one who reads my posts. But I still like doing it. 😄 I sometimes cross post to twitter to FB but mostly for travel entries only.
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Well said Cielo, blogging is something personal to us and we grow too because of it. Never mind if you don’t have as many readers as you wish as long as you can touch someone out there through your blog, that would be enough.
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blogging is very much a part of me. and i love that i get to meet others in the community. i’m happy with wordpress. fb is a little too noisy for me. 🙂
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Isn’t it wonderful that we met here? Thanks lolaWi, I am grateful for your presence in my cyber world. Hopefully, we would get to meet someday.
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Glad you feel safe on wordpress! And thank you for sharing that great tip — it would be horrible to lose everything!
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Thanks Neely for visiting my blog.
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Nice topic Arlene …Thanks for sharing this 🙂
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You’re welcome Jake, thanks 🙂
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Hi Arlene, Thanks for coming over to my blog and deciding to follow.
I love the tip of saving the blog to hard drive. Just have to work out how to do that. Have a new Apple computer that I am finding my way around. Still on holiday so when I return home I shall have a go at doing this.
And yes I have often wondered if anybody is reading my blog but mostly I post to satisfy a need in me – can’t put the need into words but you obviously understand it, 🙂
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Thanks Judith for these kind words. It is quite easy to do it, just go to your WP admin page, go to tools then you will see on the lower part of it, export. I would love to explore your site when I am not too busy, I love your words. Thanks again!
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How do you save it in a format that is readable on your hard drive? I saved it but it came up with all letters and symbols. Great advice thanks for sharing it.
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My son said, you would need to copy it to another platform before you can view the content. I will try to do that when I have time. I just followed the instructions of a WP blogger here. Thanks Patty.
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thanks – I will have to try it that way later. How blessed we are to have children to help us through this electronic age!
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Patty, I think the right term is you have to export it to another platform so you can see the file. I haven’t done it yet but at least we have made the right start to protect our blogs. I hope it works.
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Thank you for subscribing to my blog, Arlene!
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Please enjoy!
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I love what I’ve seen so far, your photos are wonderful. Thanks for visiting my blog.
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Hi, Arlene –
Just dig in! But here’s a tip:
Under ‘Geographic Zones’ (Right column) you’ll find an ‘INDEX’! If you open that, you’ll be able to se which post includes the most pictures and which photographer that did the job! And at the end of each post, you’ll find a link returning you to INDEX and a new choice.
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Thank you, will definitely do that.
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Arlene;
First of all thanks a lot for subscribing my blog, I too subscribed for your blog; do not consider it as a return favor.
Today, I have visited your blog, still, I have not gone through entire blog, but, just going through this post only, I could not resist myself for subscription as well as writing to you.
In cyber space, whenever, I find blogs and bloggers like you, I feel, Yes, this is the kind of blog and blogger I would like to follow; today, your blog has created same feeling in my mind.
Through, going this page, I found we both share many common passion, interests, hobbies and viewpoints; I wish, day after day, our “Blogging friendship” will become more solid, sweet and sustainable and by the help, support and kind co-operation; we will try to empower, enhance and enrich each other.
Please convey my sweet regards to all the kids with whom you are in truly love.
“GOD BLESS YOU & ALL YOUR NEAR & DEAR ONE”
Wishing you all the best……………..
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Thank you for following my blog as well. I would love to read more of your writings when I have enough time to browse. And thank you too that you find something worth-reading here.So how do I call you?
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Arlene;
Generally, I don’t compel the people to read my post; but, since, in your side bar “It’s Nice To See You Here. I love reading your feedbacks. You’re part of this growing stats…thanks!” You have written; and if you read my most recent post, you will find one of the most useful feedback and it is indeed very very useful to you……
Wishing you all the best………………..
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