Comments on: What Will Make You Quit Blogging?

By: Justin Germino

Justin Germino — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:35:36 +0000

I know many bloggers who have succumbed to 2,3,5,7 and 10 on this list. Several who had family health issues that pulled them out of blogging and others whose wives didn’t want them spending all their free time blogging at night and had to quit to keep the peace.

There does need to be a system in place for bloggers to have someone (a close friend or loved one) do something with their blog when they die suddenly or become terminal. A clause that says to either post a statement, keep the blog up indefinitely or notify his/her social media following.

I told my wife that if I died I would want her to continue to pay the hosting fees and just put up my death notice, but leave my sites up as long as possible because it was my own little immortality in cyberspace.

By: paulo

paulo — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:06:04 +0000

number 8 seems to be the reason most bloggers quit. Making money online isn’t easy. It takes patience.

By: reyjr

reyjr — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:58:53 +0000

Hmm.. I was wondering that too. At first I thought Jehzlau’s departure was a joke – I’m still waiting for the punchline. :p

I would probably quit when I’ve got no more time to blog. Or I might not quit at all? Who knows about these things really?

Right now I blog less often than I did last year – a sure sign of waning enthusiasm. Or maybe it’s just a phase and soon I will be blogging like crazy again.

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:17:34 +0000

To me, it’s probably family. I mean, I’m still single now but one day when I get married and start to have kids, I might not have the time anymore to blog and stuffs

Oh well, let’s worry about that later

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:54:40 +0000

What a great post; very thought provoking. Strange as this sounds coming from me (you don’t really know me, but I’ve been fairly prolific), I’ve been thinking about this lately myself.

I have 3 blogs. Only one of them gets any real visitors at all. I got into blogging to promote my business, and have expanded since then. I’ve found that though I like blogging, and like visiting other blogs, I do spend a lot of time doing it, and frankly I’m starting to get tired. Not necessarily of blogging, but tired of things across the board.

Every once in awhile I ask myself if I’m getting enough out of all of my blogs to compel me to continue. I think it’s a fair question, and like the people you mentioned in your blog, every once in awhile we all probably come to that same question.

Not giving up now; just interesting to read this as I’ve been thinking about it.

By: bloggista

bloggista — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:58:01 +0000

Another way of losing interest in blogging when you ran out of “pretentions” that either you are earning or loving it. Hehehe.

That is why I know you’re still blogging despite your hectic corporate life because you simply love it… Not much about the money eh… So how’s the US$2.00/day earning with adsense? Should have increased a dozen fold already.

By: brVince

brVince — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:03:48 +0000

when there’s no inspiration… kahit madaming gusto i-blog kung walang motivation and inspiration, walang blog,… talking about my recent experience, hahaha!

By: sunjun

sunjun — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:21:03 +0000

I think it’s because people are shifting to what they call as Micro-blogging – snippets / shoutouts /profile updates in 1 or 2 sentences – like twitter and facebook. It’s still blogging but not the same as the traditional form.

I read a survey about this in the newspaper and people are definitely shifting to it especially with the rise of internet access thru mobile phones – mobile blogging na and IN! Sadly for us here in the Phils, medyo mahal pa din to avail of this service.

My friends in Japan and SG are all doing it.

By: Jovir

Jovir — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:56:56 +0000

Nice post. I guess the only things that will make me quit blogging are the deadliest reasons as: Blog host crash and if there will be a much more higher state of being other than the internet.

By: ConnieFoggles

ConnieFoggles — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:49:32 +0000

I often worry that I’ll be too sick for a while to blog. I think I’d go crazy without it. Now that I have my laptop the likelihood of that happening doesn’t sound very good though. Even if I were in the hospital there’s free wifi! Did you know that there’s even a plugin for closing down your blog when you die? It allows you to write a goodbye post and provides all of your hosting and affiliate info to your next of kin.