What about people who say "Follow me and I'll follow you"? I always check out their blogs too and won't hesitate to follow, but then what if they don't follow me back? I feel cheated. I feel let down. I feel that someone has broken their word. But I continue to check their posts in my reader anyway.
When surfing the blogosphere, I must admit that I am sometimes afraid to follow people whose blogs are a good read and instead just bookmark the page. I don't want to appear too eager, and would prefer to lurk. I do try to follow new bloggers because I know it can be intimidating and disheartening if you think no-one is listening.
Sometimes when I want to comment, I don't - again for fear of looking like I'm fishing for followers. And what are the rules for commenting anyway? I see a lot of blogs with comments and yet the blogger is silent. Is this okay? Do they see the comments? Why don't they answer? In the real world I would feel rude if someone spoke to me and I ignored them. So I try to reply to all my comments. This brings me back to the followers, what if a blogger has too many followers and too many comments? How can you possibly keep up?
I have other questions too. Experts say a blog should have a theme and many blogs are very very consistent, always posting on topic: outfits, crafts, recipes, photos or what-have-you; but what if your outfit was nothing special, you didn't have time for crafts, you bought take-out and your photos were blurry? What do you do then?
Have you asked yourself these questions? Are there any rules? What do you do?
Today's topic is linked to: alphabe-Thursday
Hi Narda, I've wondered about these things myself. I've decided not to worry about followers. I just want to make friends and have some fun and talk about thrifting. Once "rules" get implemented it seems to ruin the fun.
ReplyDeleteHey Sheila, You're right, I'm overthinking it ...
ReplyDeleteI have pondered these very things. I've been blogging for almost two years and still have under 500 followers, but gradually I've come to recognize that I value the personal relationship I have with many of my readers. I have always replied to readers in my comments (which is why there are often so many comments). I often follow bloggers that are similar to me back. I recently unfollowed some big name blogs where I felt that I had no personal relationship...although I had left a number of comments over time.
ReplyDeleteI am thinking the same, there are blogs where I leave comments but it's like no-one is there ...
DeleteHi Daisy! Thanks for following and commenting!
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