It was going to happen; there was eventually going to be a time when I would have to delete Myspace page but I had hoped to have had taken the time to save and archive my blogs from there - before something went wrong and I'd lose some of my favorites.
Myspace was originally started to promote artists work, whether they were musicians, writers or models but then it changed to a site where everyone could have a page and connect as friends, make new friends, find old friends you were thankful you lost touch with and there was new way to stalk an ex. On Myspace, you could design your own page and have a music player and I thought that was cool.
The internet and social media has changed so much that Myspace never kept up with the trends. Their application is a copy cat of facebook and their blog page, forget it. It used to be cool, where I could design my page to look different all the time but now, it's plain and boring and not even worth promoting.
I started to blog six years ago this fall to be exact. It was in November of 2005 when I realized I could share my stories with the world wide web. At the time I was living alone in a studio apartment in Boston and I was sharing my day to day adventures about being single and a city slicker. I remember thinking I'd write a book, Sex and the City meets Boston. I wasn't an avid blogger at first, as a matter of face, I believe my very first blog was posted right here my blogger page, titled, "Life w/out a car." I've edited it but it's funny to think how far I've come as a person and as a blogger. I remember believing that blogging was nothing, then I went on to realize how it could help me as a writer. On Myspace, there was a blogging community where people considered themselves, "Myspace celebrities." Then I connected with a blogging site, SIN, and tried to blog for them but it lasted a few short months. Those days, I made internet and blogging friends and I've stayed in touch with at least five of those people.
I then moved on to another site call PNN and met some amazing ladies that I'm still in touch with. I moved on to write a few articles for a marketing and events promotion site called 704Events.com in Charlotte, NC. It was the first time I had my own media credentials. It was a short lived and great opportunity. Now, I can be found at Skirts and Scuffs where I write articles about NASCAR. Because of this site, I'm allowed to attend events and races with media credentials. I've interviewed drivers and my articles are more than just blogs.
I think back to my past and realize, I wasn't much into the whole computer thing in my earlier twenties.
For starters, I had an old and used computer that I hated to use and secondly when I did get a new one, I used it for school work. At twenty something before 25, I was in love with work. I interned at the courthouse and I was looking for a job in a law firm or in a law department of a corporate company. When I found that job I devoted myself 120% and I kept that momentum going until 2008. Between 2002 and 2005 I had found training at my gym and competing more exciting then the internet and what do you think I did with the fiction stories I was writing? I didn't share them, I kept them on disks, which I've since lost since computers went from floppy disks to CD's. Then in 2005, when I had my lap top, I had started to focus a lot more on my writing. I had even found a website (or two, three maybe four) to post my fiction stories. The first time I shared a fiction piece was on writing.com and lots of people read it. I wrote "Missing." A story of a young girl gone missing and it was a mystery; I led the characters through a series of events where they'd have to discuss what could have possibly happened to lead their friend to either runaway or worse, could've led to someone doing harm to her. She was eventually found at her friends house in Florida when she called home to confess to having runaway. She needed time alone and purposely left without notice to do something spontaneous and unexpected and out of character. She was also running away from a broken relationship.
I loved that story that I tried to edit in a creative writing class I took. That story went missing even though I had it saved to disk.
Everything comes and goes. Internet sites, bands, singers, music genres, shoe and clothing styles, hairdo's, athletes, records, cassettes, VHS, MTV. We all have our time when we hit our prime and then it all fades away and some disappear forever.
According to NBC Today's News from last week, Myspace is one of the ten brands that will not be around in 2012. After reading that, I went over to Myspace page that I've long neglected and tried to retrieve old blogs, but, their blogger page has changed and I'm stumped; I need to learn how to re-do it all and it's such a hassle. I'd love to re-post and re-read some old blogs I used to write. There was a time when my voice was at it's best, my writing may have needed work but that doesn't matter. In 2007, I was a different person going through different trials and tribulations. I wonder, should I find a way to keep it all or get rid of some of it? At this point, I worry I may not save all 365 blogs that I wrote on Myspace. Guess I'll have to find time to sit back and retrieve it all and make decisions, shouldn't be so hard, should it?
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