Making a blog into a home
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For sometime now I’ve had multiple sites and domains but have never taken the time to concentrate on building them out. It was mostly do to a lack of content and time. This time around I thought I would try to concentrate on a single concept instead of trying to create a personal blog.
Starting in 2008 I started to get back into online MMO’s and was hoping to find a game that was enjoyable and could distract me from the drama that real life brings. As the months progressed I found that some online communities just didn’t seem to fit my personality or were too complex. I figured it would be best to join the same communities that people I knew in real life were a part of. So I joined World of Warcraft since I knew of a couple of people who currently played it.
I had previously played WoW but never got too deep into it because I didn’t understand the complexities of the game nor did I have the time to dedicate to it. But knowing that I had friends already in game I was willing to give it another shot and dived right into this new online experience.
As time passed I wanted to learn more about the people in WoW community and their online experiences. To my surprise there was a large following with wikis, blogs, portals, movies, and even podcasts all dedicated to WoW. So wondered what drives people to create so much content and have so many discussions about a game? To try to answer my question I started to listen to different WoW related podcasts and blogs. One podcast really struck me, a podcast produced by a female WoW player named Alachia called WoWCast .
Her views on MMO’s and communities that revolve around a fantasy world intrigued me and caused me to reflect on my life and experienced with in these worlds. She described these worlds as the meta, a fictional world with in our reality that we become attached to and try to make our reality. I dont want to go too much more into it but you can read Alachia’s explanation or look up the word on Wikipedia for more insight.
Come back to present day and I am still playing WoW and have become immersed in the community and the game itself. But WoW is only a small part of my metaverse. The Internet itself fascinates me and has become my home. So with this website I hope to post my insight into this constantly changing and evolving online world that connects us all and even separates us. But we’ll talk about that in another blog post.
