I’m feeling very sentimental about blogging after all of your thoughtful and kind comments yesterday.
I started writing online back in 2006. That was the same year that I joined and started participating online for the first time via a message board. If you would have said to me in 2005, that I’d be regularly interacting with people online, via a message board or WORSE! a blog, I’d would have thought you were just trying to annoy me.
All that I knew about blogs at the time was that it was a place where geeks wrote about geeky things. Most blog writers were middle-aged balding dudes, living in their parent’s basements, wearing wife-beater tees. They stayed up all night chatting online about Dungeons and Dragons while eating cheetos and drinking cheap beer.
I’m still certain that type of blogger exists (ha! kidding!), I found that my image of bloggers was way off. In fact, I’ve discovered a group of people that I really identified with and now I can’t imagine NOT interacting with people online. I depend on your support, perspective, and humor.
So back to aught six, I met a local blogger through my message board . Through her blog, I then found a whole world of people interacting online, talking about motherhood and marriage, weight gain and women’s friendships. The very first blogs I read were several of the now defunct Club Mom blogs. Those first blogs that I read were the ones that changed my outlook of blogging and quite literally changed the course of my life. Those blogs were, (since I can’t link to their Club Mom blogs, I’ll link to their personal blogs…) Motherhood Uncensored, All & Sundry, Cheeky Lotus, and So the Fish Said.
Today is Delurking Day, a day where you I encourage you to “delurk” or say “hi,” especially if you don’t normally comment. Yes, it’s a blatant ploy to get comments. I’m okay with that. I know it’s awkward to comment when you really have nothing to say, so I’m asking you to delurk (or just comment as you regularly do!) and tell me, who were your first blog reads?
Delurking Day, hosted by Greeblemonkey and Rude Cactus
rachel-asouthernfairytale
January 15, 2010 at 10:35 pm
A bit late to the party, aren’t I?
I”m not truly a lurker but, wanted to say Hi anyway
You know I adore you.
I think you’re one of my first ‘real’ blog reads
rachel-asouthernfairytale´s last blog ..I’m Talking to You
Jennifer
Twitter: playgroupie
January 16, 2010 at 1:19 pm
I’m late to your party, too. I emailed myself your post from my feed reader. Will be “delurking” there soon!
Karen
January 16, 2010 at 1:44 am
I admit it. It’s just recently that I found out that mommy blogs that don’t actually belong to mommy’s that I know can be interesting! So I just starting reading your blog a week or so ago. I love it! I’m just starting to find myself as a writer, professionally and recreationally. It’s been inspirational to find women who have found their voice– whitty, funny, honest. Thank you for letting us enjoy a little slice of your world.
Jennifer
Twitter: playgroupie
January 16, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Thanks, Karen. It’s amazing how interesting other people’s lives are…even those we don’t know!
ShortyMom
January 16, 2010 at 9:14 pm
I admit to being late too! I started reading blogs that I friend of mine was recommended and I was addicted. Not longer after that I had my own blog. Then I started reading those bloggers recommendations and yours was one of the first I found. I’ve been coming back ever since and that’s been well over a year now, possibly two. I enjoy your stories!
Jennifer
Twitter: playgroupie
January 17, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Thanks! It’s nice to hear that I was “recommended.” Makes me feel all certified, or something.
mayberry
January 16, 2010 at 11:10 pm
My first reads went way back to iParenting … AM. OLD.
mayberry´s last blog ..Delurkify yourself
Jennifer
Twitter: playgroupie
January 17, 2010 at 5:47 pm
I don’t even know what iParenting is!
Lisa @ Boondock Ramblings
January 17, 2010 at 5:34 pm
I don’t usually comment, but I do read!
Lisa @ Boondock Ramblings´s last blog ..Nothing like a good ole’ stomach flu. . .Or not.
Jennifer
Twitter: playgroupie
January 17, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Glad you commented today!
lis
January 17, 2010 at 11:25 pm
just dropping in late to say i subscribe and very much enjoy reading your blog. i do hope you are coming out of your funk…i hate feeling that way! your first two pics are really cool and looking forward to the future installments!
Jennifer
Twitter: playgroupie
January 18, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Thank you, Lis, I am coming out of my funk. It’s just awful when you feel like that.
Glad you said Hi!
the planet of janet
Twitter: planetofjanet
January 19, 2010 at 1:20 am
210 comments? yow.
i lurk, or i comment.
but my first read was the fake doctor at ah yes med school. he doesn’t write anymore, but he launched me on a journey.
so thanks, fake doctor, wherever you are.
the planet of janet´s last blog ..Crying over spilled milk
Jennifer
Twitter: playgroupie
January 19, 2010 at 3:21 pm
There’s not really that many comments! I just replied to all of them, which added to the count.
And I’m totally intrigued by a fake doctor blog…
corrin
January 20, 2010 at 5:37 am
I read too.
Jennifer
Twitter: playgroupie
January 21, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Glad you said hi, Corrin!
Kat @ TodaysCliche.com
January 23, 2010 at 3:29 pm
I’m soo thrilled to have found your site. I’m bummed that I didn’t come across you sooner! I just started blogging myself, and am myself anxious to review your fellow bloggers with whom you first connected, back when you first started. Are you with SITS? Will you be going to the Convention?
I’d love any/all feedback you can provide for what I’m trying to accomplish on http://www.TodaysCliche.com.
I’ll be back, for sure!!
Kat @ TodaysCliche.com´s last blog ..Like Father, Like (Grand)son
Jennifer
Twitter: playgroupie
January 24, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Hi Kat,
I’m not with SITS, but I’ve heard great things about that group!
I’m not sure which convention you mean, there are SO MANY! I’m going to Blissdom in two weeks and I’ll be at BlogHer in New York this summer.