Does anyone even blog anymore?

Hello all. I stopped in at my own blog today and looked at "my blog list" and realized that, save one blog, no one had updated their blog in about a year. That prompted me to ask myself, "Does anyone even blog anymore?" I know that some folks do, but having left my own blog alone for more than six months leads me to ask a deeper question, "Why do I (or does anyone else) blog?"

For the last six year or so, I must admit blogging has been a largely self-aggrandizing activity. Look at me! Look at the cool stuff I am doing. Look my great life. Isn't it so interesting? I have not written here with much intent other than that. There is some vague notion in my mind that I have written to keep family and friends updated with our (mine and KT's) life as we are many miles from most of you, but even that has been largely a one-way-street (apart from a few comments...which I always appreciate). Even that role of this blog has been largely taken over by the Facebook, leaving those luddite or suspicious 'non-facebookers' out of the loop.

The only type of post that I have really enjoyed are my periodic 'News from the Country Estate' updates that include Maine country living news, family tidbits, vehicles, weather and overall musings of the urban-born turned rural dweller trying to scratch out a living in a down economy.

So for now, I think I will continue with posts along that vein, and maybe someday, start an entirely new blog on that topic.

And, I will clean up my blog list to include blogs that are actually updated and that I actually read.