{"id":285,"date":"2021-07-20T13:03:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.complicatednoise.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2021-07-20T13:03:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:03:47","slug":"building-up-a-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/building-up-a-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Up a Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once upon a time, when the internet was new and shiny for regular people, I started unknowingly building a community of friends and followers. It was a simple website where I posted my thoughts and feelings of what it was like to be in a long-term relationship. I think people had a front seat into my relationship–the good, the bad, and the annoyingly frustrating. For some reason, people liked my style of being brutally honest and upfront with the way that I felt. As time passed, and after people recognising me in public, I stepped back and started censoring a lot of stuff. I think the way I explained things back then would be a privacy advocate’s worst nightmare. As time passed, I have learned what a horribly scary place the internet can be. I guess more than 20 years can do that to you, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sometimes I think about how I miss that little community. People would find me and talk to me for friendship. I was able to meet so many people around the world this way. I was able to expand my view of the world and become curious of what other parts of the world had to offer. This community of people that I built from scratch was paramount for my exploration. I am so thankful for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few times after this, I’ve attempted to rebuild a community of like-minded people through podcasting and for a while, I would say that was successful. Then I’d quit. Then I’d go back to it. Then I’d quit. The cycle never ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to try to reconnect with strangers in a nice way–to bring people together. I’ve been trying, but I’ve also been failing at that spectacularly. I know that I have and I haven’t really done anything to improve that. I’d like to though, but my progress has been slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe one day I can rebuild that community through being myself. I will see how that goes. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(And geez, I was looking for screen shots of my old sites and trust me, you don’t want to see them. Lots of ugliness and missing images. That’s no fun! I’ve been at this since 1998, by the way… I’m old!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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