Thoughts of Moving On to It!

Yes, my Multiply account is still active it's just that I haven't been blogging for a while now because of time spent in doing stuff for school. The only "blogging" I get to do is typing whatever's on my mind as my status for FB, Twitter and Plurk.Lazy right?

Well, I've been thinking about continuing writing my original posts on Facebook instead of writing it on Multiply. One reason is that for the past year or two, I've noticed a significant drop of viewership in jbata5.multiply.com and it's not just mine, but to others as well. If in 2007, the in thing was Multiply, then today it's Facebook that's taking the central spotlight.

If I remember it right, Dianne signed up on FB a few years after she made a vow to me that she's fine using Multiply when I invited her then to join Facebook (I signed up on FB around January 2007 then on Multiply on March that same year).

Since starting The J-Blog Files in 2007 (which was originally intended to exist as a way to reply on a Multiply link Dianne put up on her YM status), I've written over 550 entries with some still unpublished. I think I've reached the point of getting a bit burned out sharing whatever it is that I want to share to the rest of the world: My life, my feel good moments, my misfortunes in life, and whatever it is that I want to write about.

What's worse is that no one's reading what I'm posting here anymore unless Multiply gets itself a tagging function similar to FB's. In addition, Multiply as a whole have degenerated into an online marketplace for people trying to sell items on the net, with ads eating up a good chunk of space on my page alone. The essence of what the site was intended seemed to have lost its way, like how Friendster was before it went downhill.

As much as I want to end my misery and quit Multiply for good, there's still a reason for me to hang on. For one, it has become my refuge of putting my inner thoughts that I don't want other people to read on Facebook (except for the occasional poetry that I get to type on FB), second I've been thinking of putting a certain end date writing blog entries for The J-Blog Files on the same manner how I started doing it anyway.

Come to think of it, my first ever post on Multiply is titled "Just Before Graduation". I wrote it just mere hours before I headed out to school to march on the day of my high school graduation. If ever I do get to finish college on my projected end date, July 2011...That's where I want to put my final entry under jbata5.multiply.com. I'm already thinking of my final blog's title as something like "After I Graduated", hours after I graduate from school altogether.

Cool right?

It's also a nice way to see how far I've come from the grammatical error-filled posts to the somehow sane writings that I manage to put up on the site.

Putting an end date does not signify the end of The J-Blog Files however. In fact, I hope that this could eb the start of a new beginning as I still want to write to reflect my life's adventures as I head out to the real world. The J-Blog Files helped me find who I am to myself, who I am to others. It will continue to be as I struggle to the woes of life and enjoy the bliss that comes after it.

Besides, I still have to continue writing The CSB Experience, and the remaining chapters on my long delayed fiction stories: Paglisan and When She Left Me.

So for now, enjoy yourselves as I put the "J" to the word "Blog"!