It’s another new year! Another new start and another new promise to myself to keep my blog alive.<\/p>\n
It’s 2022 and I have not posted anything since 2020! I should take my own advice<\/a>, and stick to a goal, get over my fears of imperfection and just post.<\/p>\n Perhaps at this point I should just delete this website completely, but there is a reason I’ve kept on paying the domain fee and hosting subscription and may be that means I’m just not ready to let it go… at least not without a fight or some ceremonial digital funeral.<\/p>\n With the increase in popularity of video apps and the decrease in our attention spans, TikTok has seen a surge in popularity (as we all know); competitors Instagram and YouTube are following suit by pushing their short-form portrait videos.<\/p>\n So it begs the question, are we still reading blogs?<\/p>\n Writing is a from of catharsis and gives a form of expression that viral videos can’t necessarily. When we want to put our minds to it, we will happily listen to a 90 minute podcast, watch a 3 hour film and so long-form content isn’t going anywhere.<\/p>\n So what’s been going on?<\/p>\n So – a quick overview of 2020 and 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n Well I don’t need to go into lockdowns etc, we’ve all been there and got the loo roll, but with the exhaustion we all felt with the pandemic – not enough socialising without the use of screen-time and too much blue-light – I couldn’t bring myself to spend even more time sitting at a computer.<\/p>\n I was asked to go on BBC radio to talk about my blog.<\/p>\n I completed Red January<\/a> and raised money for charity.<\/p>\n I pretty much gave up on Instagram<\/a> and with it lost over 1,000 followers (2018 me would have been so upset!) and I couldn’t care less how low my reach is now.<\/p>\n