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When I started blogging way back in March of 2008, I was blogging using Google's Blogspot.   I had developed my own art website by myself and it didn't have any of the great features of my current website by FASO.  It didn't have a blog or a newsletter or anything except a place to display my work.  

For years I really enjoyed blogging because it was one way to connect with other people who had similar interests.  It was also a way for me to keep track of life, really.   I explored and shared thoughts about what was happening -- mostly around my art, but also about family and life and adventures in the world.  I documented many of the workshops I took and shared what I had learned.  (Those seemed to be especially popular with other artists.)   I really enjoyed writing -- and I wrote either daily or several times a week.  

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Even after I signed up with FASO I continued to use both my Blogspot blog  AND my FASO blog because there were still people I was connected to that weren't part of the FASO group.  All in all until this post there were 756 posts on the Blogspot blog.  

Whenever I copied the info from Blogspot to FASO, I tried to steer readers from Blogspot to FASO because I wanted them to look at my art which really became the reason I thought to start blogging in the first place.  

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Somehow, though, with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and with fewer and fewer friends using blogging to connect, I now rarely blog.  This post is the first I've done in 6 months or so.  Looking back over many of those years of posts, I realize it was a FABULOUS way to keep track of so much of what was happening in life.  

Facebook is nice and really does reach more of my friends from my education career and it connects me with people I might not have known otherwise.  However to me using social media isn't as satisfying as writing or analyzing my thoughts by blogging.

What are your experiences?

Did you ever blog?  

Do you still blog?  

If so, why?  

If not, why?   

How do you think blogging compares with the various social media platforms?