Love/hate relation-
ship with blogging. So many
blogs. So little time.
There are days when I wake up and I’m feeling really jazzed about my blog. Yay! Comments are coming in! Yay! Everyone is writing such AWESOME STUFF! These awesome ladies are helping Lotus! Yay! I LOVE blogging!
Then there are days when I feel completely and utterly overwhelmed. Oh my God I have 20 new commenters whose blogs I haven’t visited. Oh my God, why don’t people like my post today? Why are my numbers so low? 1000+ unread in my Google Reader. Yikes. Blogging is stupid.
I know that there is an expectation of reciprocity in the blogosphere. You comment here, I return the favor. I link you, you leave a comment. You participate in Thursday Thirteen/Wordless Wednesday/Best Shot Monday/ Tackle it Tuesday/Haiku Friday, you’re expected to comment on other’s who are also participating.
Blogging has the power to take over your life if you allow it. I know that I feel an often overwhelming sense of responsibility to everyone in the blogosphere, despite saying that I blog guilt free. I don’t. There are so many of you out there that are so talented and witty, but it’s not possible with only 24 hours in each day to visit each and every person. I’m not certain where the balance lies.
This is what I’d like to know, just out of curiosity…
1. Do you comment only on blogs whose writer(s) return the favor?
2. What makes you comment? What makes you NOT comment?
3. Do you ever feel snubbed by another blogger? (Please don’t name names)
4. How do you feel about replying to comments? Is it absolutely necessary or does it give you the nervous tummy?
5. Do you feel like blogging sometimes gets in the way of your life?
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I comment when I have something to say. If I only commented on the people who comment on my blog, I’d only be writing on 4 or 5 blogs, two of which belong to sisters. I don’t always leave comments because of time restraints. I work full time and am co-owner of an online business so I try to blog on my lunch hour and during free time on weekends. And when I’m in the middle of a really good book, that takes up some of my lunch hour too. So, some days I’m mostly a lurker. I tend not to feel snubbed when people don’t comment on my blog – I’m writing for me more than them anyway. I have a few blogs I visit every day and then others that I try to get to at least once a week. I don’t respond to comments people leave me unless there is a specific question. Usually, I leave a comment on their blog. And I’m still trying to find enough time to do everything I want to in the blogosphere, especially as I learn more about it.
Mary Beth’s last blog post..ODDS AND ENDS
Boy, I am really bad then, I comment when I feel like it. There are days I go on a comment rampage and then there are weeks I do not comment on anyone’s blog.
Now, go over to my blog and comment. Feel the guilt..LOL.
Yoli’s last blog post..The joys of a son
Well lets see here…
1. No I wouldn’t say this is true because I get nervous in general about commenting on people’s blogs…
2. It depends…if it’s something I might have some good input in then I might comment. Most of the time I don’t though because of nerves
3. Nope
4. The whole thing makes me nervous. My blog isn’t exactly mainstream although I’ve found some incredible blogs/bloggers through my best friend I sometimes feel like and intruder..
5. Yeah I do…but I decided I’m not pressuring myself to do 365 anymore…I took some time off and now I’ll blog if I can
Jessi’s last blog post..Weekly Winners 03/09 – 03/15/08
I can so relate with your haiku…but I will have a different title I think…LOL
To answer your questions…well, personally, I flutter everywhere! I read blogs and sometimes I’m there more than once a day…some everyday…some every activity…some not regularly…but that has nothing to do on the number of times they visit or comments in my blog. It’s just that sometimes a comment would prompt to check a blog (bec in my thinking the person got online…and maybe he/she posted something new).
Mariposa’s last blog post..St. Paddy’s Day Monday Fever…
wow. you have a lot of comments here. i was going to answer your questions, but you will already be overwhelmed by the enormous number of comments. don’t feel you have to visit me – I am overwhelmed on your behalf.
chicken and cheese is reassessing her relationship with blogging these days, too. must be the dreary time of year. i do so enjoy reading you and a few other moms out there and btw, i only comment when i have something to say or really love the post.
Sus’s last blog post..Eyes Wide Open
I’m in THE EXACT same place. I love it, sure! I hate it, wtf do I do it? If I don’t do it every day my stats drop (like a rock) but if I don’t comment, nobody reads. But if I go say hi to people who DO comment, am I a snob because I love other people that don’t usually comment. But I don’t have TIME to do everything. And OMG I have to email a client back and dearlord I made up that fucking blogguiltfree and I don’t even do it.
So. yea.
Short short version? I have a handful of people I connect with and that handful is growing and I miss some of my original people I connect with but I know it’ll all come around like old friends.
And no, I don’t reply to every comment. There are days I forget I have a blog.
But you DAMN sure better reply to all 109 of these comments here.
Hehe…
Mrs. Flinger’s last blog post..Mrs. Flinger: Raw
1 – Nope i try to comment on every blog i read regardless if they read/comment on mine
2 – I honestly like to comment on every post, sometimes if a post is completely against my beliefs i will not say something as a person should be able to say what they want without getting bitched at.
Lately though i have been so far behind im commenting only on the latest post to try and stay caught up.
3 – Sometimes, yes it is lovely for someone to come and check out my blog but i don’t expect it . If after reading and commenting for a a while and i have never so much as received a “thanks for stopping by ” i tend to stop reading.
4- I would love to reply to all comments but just do not have time, i only tend to do it to new people or those who ask questions.
5. Not blogging so much but the amount of blogs to read sometimes overwhelms me
Laura McIntyre’s last blog post..A Rite Of Passage
So. very. behind. bad, bad, blog citizen. Forgive?
1. No, I generally comment when I have something to say, otherwise I don’t.
2. I comment when I feel like I have something to offer to the conversation. I don’t comment when I don’t have anything nice to say.
3. I have in fact felt snubbed at one time or another. Whatever.
4. I don’t always reply but if I have something to say I will and I’m not generally nervous about it.
5. Sometimes it feels like a chore but sometimes it feels like an awesome way to escape and find a common ground with other people.
ImpostorMom’s last blog post..Woe is me
Thanks for the post, i enjoyed reading it. blogging is not as easy as many think it is, it’s hardwork. any how thanks.