This Isn’t What I’d Planned

Today’s post was actually going to be full of doom, gloom and depression!  But I changed my mind and popped that into the “drafts” section…hopefully you’ll never have to read it.

Instead…well, it’s just something else!

I was reading Larissa’s blog yesterday where she’d posted about comments (or lack of) and other bloggers and I 100% agreed with her and felt the need therapise (I’ve possibly just made up a new word)) myself about it.

I follow 62 blogs…yes 62 could be seen as excessive, but it’s okay!!  This number is forever increasing because I love reading.  I struggle to find books I enjoy (that do not involve some form of smut) and so blogs are the best form of reading for me because their content is forever changing.  (Technology allowing) I read pretty much every post that these 62 bloggers put out there to be read and ensure that I comment on at least 75% of the posts (the other 25% is generally where either I genuinely cannot find a thing to say…or some naughty sausage stole my comment (direct from my brain)). 

Now, I don’t want to upset anyone but I just wanted to put these 2 things out there – they’re things I’m confused about (and this was a very long around getting to the point).

Lurkers (is that how that’s spelt?)

Why do people lurk?  I obviously don’t mind people “lurking”, although it is a tiny bit creepy because it feels like someone’s peeking through my window when I’m getting changed or something.  Now, my feed reader stats tell me that I have 74 rss subscriptions (or whatever you call them)…yet only 23 of these have regularly been “active” (it also told me that, I haven’t added up the comments or anything) on my blog.  51 subscribed but unactive seems a little excessive, don’t you think?  I challenge these lurkers to get in touch and un-lurk (hmm, sounds funny) themselves!!  Leave a comment, send an email…whatever you like.  I wouldn’t want to think that you are secretly religiously following me and I don’t even know who you are.

“Celebrity” Bloggers

So, my second little confusion is Larissa point.  A good analagy would be unrequited love!  You fall in love with someone, do everything you can to get them to notice you yet, alas, they just don’t seem to see you (they can’t see the wood for the trees springs to mind).  Anyhoo, this is how I feel with blogging sometimes!  You know when you absolutely love a blog to death and comment your little heart out on every post….but they never respond in any shape or form…and in fact, you never see them comment anywhere?  Those are the ones that get to me a little bit.  Fair enough if you actually see them interacting somewhere – then I know my blog isn’t for them or something.  but when you never see them anywhere else what does that mean?  I know my little comment might not mean much in their big important world, but it’s my little comment that added to the rest of the little comments to make a rather large number!  I just wish these people weren’t so interesting.

Hmm…no moral…no point!  Perhaps I should’ve gone down the gloomy post route afterall!?  Tomorrow I shall bring bloggy love to all my favourites and maybe even something inappropriate!

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