This week, I nearly thought about giving up my blog and abandoning it for good. It all started with my Facebook page. I don’t particularly use Facebook for anything with the exception of importing my blog (as notes) to the site.

Yet, it is the most idiotic piece of social media marketing you can do for your own blog. What’s the point of turning your FB page into a copy of your own blog site? If you’re interested in driving readers to your work – why have them “cheat” and go to a Facebook page? And, on top of that – it probably doesn’t make much of a difference if you have 100 friends or 1000. They’re most likely not there reading your FB page to check our your blog.

It’s stupid.

I’m stupid.

I also have been fighting with the “success meets blog” syndrome that’s also been plaguing me with blogger’s block. I change my mind about blogging when deciding I don’t have enough subscribers or I don’t post enough (or too much).

Then there’s Technorati. I don’t have a Technorati badge even though I’ve signed up for it. And, I don’t tell the poor souls who stop here to promote me on the site either. Why? Because I’m lazy. I am tired of trying to figure out how to put the stupid badge on one of my yellow widgets.

I figure if someone likes me that much, they’ll do it anyway.

And, if they don’t – they’ll be too busy looking for a new blog to bookmark or trashing me on Twitter because I call my readers “poor souls.”

Then there’s the bunches of other sites I’m supposed to use to promote my blog. But, I don’t feel like talking about them because I’ve found they’re full of crap.

Therefore, the answer is no. I’ve become less of an expert since I started blogging because I don’t know what the hell I’m doing. All this social media stuff is supposed to be democratizing . Nonetheless, when you’re too lazy to use it, you’re still as isolated (if not more).