Originally Posted by
Happy Feet
I have nothing against other sites but for myself I'd rather create my own personal website to retain editorial control of content.
When you post on someone else's site they basically own your content and can profit from or delete it whenever they want. It becomes their journal, not yours. You are also limited to their layout style as well.
That's why I just revived my old travel Blogspot account. I wanted a written account of my trip for future memories, and because I had a few folks interested in detail that I didn't want to tell over and over again, and whether true or not there are enough dissenters and stories about the aforementioned popular blog site to put me off using it.