It's just... fun?

Someone on Mastodon asked Kev Quirk why people build personal websites, when social media profiles already serve that purpose well.

Kev replied in blog form.

So did Juha-Matti.

I’m like, it’s just fun!

I’ve been extremely online since 1998/9. In that time I’ve made my own websites, closed them down and retreated into a more private web (was safest while I was a teacher of teenagers for a period), used the likes of blogger and tumblr, and finally in 2020/1 started rebuilding my very own public web presence.

I started building again to aid my getting a job in web development, but it’s since become much more personal and a lot less like an online portfolio.

It feels right to have my own home online, built by me, for me. I do it because I can and because it’s fun :)