When I set off blogging nineteen years ago, I had no idea if anyone would even find "Yorkshire Pudding" in the blogging galaxy we occupy. But gradually it started to happen. Visitors came as I visited other blogs and before you knew it my blogposts were not lonesome sailing boats upon a deep, dark ocean but part of a flotilla that seemed to grow. I was not alone.
Back in 2005, I had no notion of what my visitors might be like. Would there be a typical profile?
Nineteen years later, it seems to me that this blog has attracted generally mature, literate people. Most visitors are over fifty years old and most are white. The majority own their own homes and most live in western countries - The United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, The British Isles etc..
This was never planned but it is what happened. I think of the saying, "Birds of a feather flock together" and I wonder - was there anything I might have done to appeal to younger people or to bloggers from non-western nations? How could I have made the profile of my visitors more diverse?
Perhaps younger people do not blog and if so, why is that? Perhaps their urge to reach out and connect with others is satisfied through other channels like "X", Facebook and Instagram. Perhaps their lives are too full-on to find time for blogging or visiting other people's blogs.
Just occasionally, I stumble across interesting blogs I have never been to before and scanning down the commenters, I might find no names that I recognise. It is as if I have stepped into a parallel universe and I guess that there may be hundreds of such hidden places in the blogosphere. After all, it is estimated that there are 600 million blogs in the world - not all of them facilitated by Blogger I hasten to add.
Standing back from the fray, I wonder if you have any reflections of your own about blogging?
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