Thoughts for Thursday: Rereading your Blog Posts

Wow, I think its been nearly a year since I last posted a TFT! Had ya'll given up on me?!

My topic of the week is about rereading your old blog posts.  Its been 4+ years that I have been blogging now and quite a bit has changed with my blogging behaviors since then.  In the past I used to read and visit my own blog frequently (like at least once every day).  I have always had my blog set so that I have the 20 most recent posts showing on the main page, so it is very convenient to scroll down to the bottom and get caught up with what I have been up to for the past couple of months.  Despite that fact, It had been so long since I looked past whatever current post I had on top that I actually sneaked a peak last night at just the posts on this main page and was really surprised that I had as much stuff posted in the past few months as I did!! I rarely feel like posting without pictures and didn't think that I had actually blogged much in the past few months since I have been camera-less.  I guess borrowing my dad or brother's cameras has saved me from becoming a blog failure!

At this point in time I have nearly 1400 posts (but at least 150 of those are photo posts that I imported from my Daily Photo Blog back in June) and it would take me hours to go back and reread them all in order.  I do go back and find old posts that I want to reference from time to time, but I think I have only read my entire blog all the way through only twice, and that was for the purpose of categorizing old posts and for creating a blog highlights post.  I think I need to make a better effort sometime soon to go back and reread what my life has been about the past 5 years!

So my question for today is, do you go back and reread your own blog? How far back do you usually look?

Comments

[anne]

Haha- this post made me giggle, because I do indeed re-read old blog posts. I don't think I've ever sat down and read my blog "cover to cover", but every now and again I'll look back at something for reference, and will get all caught up in reading the blog posts from that time frame of whatever it was I looked up in the first place. I think what I look back on and re-read the most are the posts about my son- what he was doing, what he looked like, what was driving me crazy at that point in motherhood:)

[Robyn]

I do go back from time to time. I don't read the whole thing. I was thinking the same thing that it has been forever since I posted a TFT and have one, but have to actually sit and type it.

[kaye]

I only have 300 posts so I do occassionally go back and reread a few--but I don't think I've read the whole thing through.

[Jessica]

I re-read quite a bit when i'm scrapbooking. if it wasn't for my blog, my sb's would have realllly crappy journaling...lol.

[LeeAnn Howard]

I have only gone back to my blog when I specfically an searching for an event I want to recall. Other than that, Im hoping to print out each year into a blurb book. But it takes a lot of time to do that as well.

[Neen]

I will sometimes got back to "what was I doing this time last year, or the year before...". Hahha