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Background: I attended a WPress course on website construction mostly for commercial usage (not social purpose). Blogging is supposed to be social. Most blogs are published for other people to follow, and has a communication purpose, such as informing, influencing/selling, sharing/expressing opinions …

My site is for expressive, introspective, therapeutic analysis of the self and its relationships with family, peers, money, education system, economy, technology. Content is private and rarely created for anyone but myself. I customize my sites to fit my needs like a glove. This one person is front and center, as the most valuable user and client of this site. I honor this client more than all other clients combined.

In contrast, other wpress players must do everything (that needs to be done) just to engage the audience. It’s a competitive landscape.

• layout, color, font
• contact form
• ^^ These are not dev jobs, more like tweaking. Some people enjoy it. I may need to learn to enjoy it.

Actually, my usage (blogg) is the original, the simplest and best supported usage. I feel lucky.  Those commercial usages require more tweaking.

My usage is a long-term energy sink. How about their usage? I doubt it.

— some analogies to illustrate the contrast. In all of them, I derive more satisfaction/joy from meeting my own needs than from selling stuff to other people.

• essay practice .. most people do that for exam, or publishing. I do it for my private diary
• photography .. most people take photos to be shared, but some take photos to keep for herself or himself.
• singing and instrument practice .. most people practice that for performing. I practice that for self enjoyment
• cinema and sight-seeing .. most people go out for get-together, where the movie is just a “pretext”. These people would not consider solo trip.

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Q: is this ezlife or zqbx?