I had a realization today while trying to come up with an argument for a friend of mine should not have yanked his MySpace page that maybe I need to change what I do.  Counting this blog posting (and the one I am in progress with - hopefully I can finish and post it by Friday) I will have 287 posts on MySpace and 158 posts on Wordpress, some of which overlap.  (I don't count my notes on Facebook, due to the fact that all of them are the same as my MySpace Blog Posts.)

BTW, in case you forgot about my wordpress blog, it's at http://w2ed.wordpress.com/.

The majority of what I write falls into one of two categories:

1.  Things I am doing and notifying people about.
2.  Feelings, concerns, and thoughts I have.

Now, obviously the first is time-limited and has little to no relevance to my realization.  The second, however, is of a lot of value to me - and if you blog for that reason as well, should be for you as well.

Recently a large number of people on Facebook (150,000 - or almost the entire population of Rockford, IL) and T-Mobile Sidekick owners experienced issues with their accounts, losing most to all of their valuable data.  This included links, images, movies, addresses, etc., and from my understanding, this data can not be replaced unless the user has it on their own machine.  (T-Mobile was asking their customers to keep their sidekicks on as long as possible so that people did not lose their data and I've yet to hear as to whether that is fixed yet.)

Now, if either were www.iamtoosmalltonotice.com, I don't think people would be too upset - after all, why worry about a couple of people's information?  Yet, T-Mobile is nowhere near small, considered to be one of the major cell phone carriers in the US and abroad, and Facebook right now is one of the hottest sites around.  If they can have problems like this, and you like keeping your stuff around (as I do), then you're just leaving yourself open for problems later on.

Now, unlike my friend, I have no desire to delete and move on - probably would be healthier, but I like having the knowledge that I can return to later - but I've always been a firm believer in keeping a hard-copy - you know, buying CD's and DVD's instead of downloading them online, having physical printed material rather than an e-Book, etc.  The way that I use blogs is similar to the way most of our parents and grandparents - and maybe even some of us - used journals and diaries for in the past.

I have two problems, though:  I haven't been keeping a physical printed journal in a long time, and I have all my blog postings scattered across two websites.  (I used to have a third as well, but I deleted it for the obvious reason of necessity - it does no good to say stuff that everyone knows and that no one can see you confess to anyways.)  The bright side is that I was in need of a project.

So, as soon as I find the time, I will be moving all relevant blog posts that were MySpace-Only back onto my Wordpress blog and removing or hiding those posts that are no longer relevant or that could create problems down the road.    After that, I think I'll work on getting that hard-copy of this stuff so that I don't lose it.

As for future updates, all sites will get all pages unless necessary.