Blogging vs. Social Life

I've found a pretty compelling trend in the last few months. As my social life in the "real world" space has expanded, this blog is one of the things that have suffered. Whereas a year or two ago I was writing posts a mile a minute (especially last Fall), posting is now spread out over increasingly long periods of days and even weeks.

I'm really not sure what to make of the trend, but I do know it's there. Whether it's a universal constant or something peculiar to me, I don't know. Perhaps Twitter has something to do with it, as well; I do a lot of chatting on there, along with writing short little thoughts that would never do as full blog posts.

Another thing that seems to have been affected is my focus, both in terms of my ability to concentrate and the scope of topics I cover here. This blog started as a small personal journal over on MSN Spaces (now Windows Live Spaces), moved to Blogger, became a technically oriented publication of fact and opinion, shifted more toward opinion, and is now becoming more of a personal journal again (sans most of the intimate details, because people who know me actually read it now).

Now, as I blog in the shadow of my looming departure next week, I'm finding less and less inspiration for posts. Sure, I have a list of ideas, but it seldom gets additions or subtractions any more; the ideas are more "someday" and less "do it now".

This coming school year will be my last of high school, should all go according to plan; it may also be the first in which I find myself thinking more about what's happening outside regularly scheduled things like classes and less about the classes themselves.

It does seem strange that having more of a social life has diminished my own desire to blog. Perhaps that lack of drive stems from the simple fact that I have more places to express my opinions. Why go to the trouble of typing up a few hundred words, later, when you can simply talk with a friend about it?

Hopefully I'll be able to find a better balance between my social life, school, and blogging this coming year. After all, my social life isn't going to go away.