Quite a lot of people have done it, some more than once, some have come back as they were and others have reinvented themselves and returned via a new name, blogtitle whatever.

Some have done it because they have done what they needed to do, the blog had helped them through a phase in their life and now they were out the other side and the medium was no longer required, having purged all there was to purge, or having discovered whatever it was they wanted to discover. Some used it as a challenge, one guy that was a favourite of mine on blog, Ridgeback, anyone remember him? He set himself a goal of ex amount of posts and once he had reached it that was it, he left. He was/is a lovely guy, and I still miss him :( Today I found his first ever comment to me, and then of course I found some more and remembered the fun we used to have and the bantering.

Others of course have left blog or reinvented themselves because of the trolls, or the I-know-everything-there-is-to-know-about-anything-and-everything-and-I-am-always-right brigade or the I-like-to-show-how-superior-I-am brigade. And of course we mustn't forget the poisonous pen brigade must we? I think many of us have suffered from them particular ones. And of course some have done it to avoid the attentions of blog stalkers, another quite malicious vareity of blogger.

Whatever reason these people have had they have burned their blog and all thier blog, and I was going to do this too, except I was going to leave my profile and just delete everything else, only that takes time and patience and the careful deleting of every post, which you then start reading, but tit isn't the posts, it is the comments, finding the first ever comment from my first ever blog friend jessica, I love Jessica to bits, she still blogs and I still read her, even though she is a very busy woman with a hectic life
her first ever comment
2005-12-09 @ 00:24 · Url: http://www.messyjessy.blog.co.uk ·
Comment from: JessicaSmith pro
You have a beautiful soul. Will you be my friend?

Of course I said yes, and she has been on my friends list since and I will never delete her, lol.

So after reading this, and the first ever comments from Landers and Brad and Juzzzy and CJ and AJ and Nick and many, many more, and the bantering that went on late into the night/early morning, how could I delete them?

So it looks like I am staying around a while, at least until I get over the sentimentality that makes me not press that button ;)