Vlogging vs Blogging

For quite a while now - I'd probably like to say a few years - I have been struggling with the desire to vlog. I'm not even sure why I want to vlog - putting my face on the internet, talking about silly, trivial things isn't something that most people want to do. I blame John and Hank Green, mostly. I discovered vlogging because of them. And now I'm subscribed to a hell of a lot of people on YouTube, all vloggers, and I suppose I feel like to become part of the community, to meet some of these fantastically fascinating people, I should vlog too.

But every time I tell myself I'm going to start vlogging again, it lasts for only a few weeks. I think that is a sign that vlogging isn't for me. I mean, blogging does basically the same thing, no? Not to mention that it's writing - which I don't get to do creatively nearly as much as I would like - and it's not as time-consuming as vlogging. I'll admit that's probably why my vlogging adventures always fail. It's the time thing. Figuring out what I'm vlogging about, writing down my points, setting up the camera, actually filming, editing, uploading (which takes AGES)....while I could just write some words down, make sure it sounds good and hit "publish" - it takes all of ten minutes.

Which is why I have officially decided that blogging is going to be my main form of communicating my life. I will probably still use my YouTube channel occasionally - for HPA things and special occasions, probably - but I think, at least for now, this is going to be my project.