Do older people write longer slower blog posts?

By alice | May 9, 2008

That’s definitely been my trajectory. But is it good? Is it inescapable? No need to give me endless examples of people who still blog 20 times a day well into their 70s, every rule has an exception.

Here’s why I don’t blog as often as in the olden days at the turn of the century:
1. small ideas seem a lot less pointful than they used to- why would anyone care? (nb. this is not a deeply considered and held view, just a recurring pop-up after one and a half lines of draft post).
2. just not being as much on top of what’s going on out there as I used to (think I was)
3. interests moving from what’s out there more towards small and unexciting things like the fact that my basil plant is actually still alive
4. not wanting to become one of those totally self-absorbed older people who witters endlessly about themselves, why they are right about everything, and stuff that nobody cares about, just because they can get away with it now
5. oops.

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2 Responses to “Do older people write longer slower blog posts?”

La Belette Rouge Says:
May 9th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

So, the longer and the more self-absorbed the post the older the blogger. Yikes, I think that means I am older than my biological age.;-)

woccam Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 10:35 am

People as aged as me don’t write much. We’re too tired of it all.