To be or not to be, that is the question
The blog-o-sphere is a growing large by the minute. You can visit corners of the world in a manner of minutes - I have been the ‘silent’ Blogger for quite a while – lurking at other wonderful blogs, making very few comments where acknowledge my presence and even maintaining a level of anonymity on my own blog.
Honey often suggested that he would let all our friends and family know about my blog; but I made him swear he will never do that! Not that, our friends would find anything here that they probably already did not know about us, but I loved the level of anonymity through the online medium. My argument in favor was when you visit a new city, a new town you do not give out your bio every person you meet – though you might suggest to your friends how wonderful the place was and even recommend that they too see its wonders.
When I started to visit other blogs, I often landed on great blogs with humor, culture, fiction and with visitors & commenter’s reaching a 20-30 or more per article. Often reading the comments I would realize that people have made “virtual” friends who visit each other blogs often. This made me wish for the same thing. I have started to wonder would it be so bad to let my family/friends know that I write – I don’t think my writing is all that bad (though I agree it may not be the best either). But apprehension creeps in.
So to my limited viewer-ship I pose the question - which is better?
- To let others aware that you visited them today (leave a comment, email)
- To know about visitors to your site
- To keep up with the anonymity
- Or compromise on both ends a little?
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4 comments:
Here I am..your virtual friend..
Aryan's Mom
Thank you, friend. :) You have made my Tuesday and the week ahead great already!
Hi K3, thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. My suggestion for you would be to let your friends and family know about your blog; but of course you have to then be very careful about what you write...Some things have to be private,you know.
But as far as commenting on other blogs goes, I think you shd definitely do that if you feel strongly about it. Feedback really helps..That's what I keep telling my friends who read my blog but don't comment!
Very true,Rajk. I try to regularly comment on blogs that I visit often or on articles that have interested me. But some posts already has so many comments, that I feel I would just be lost.
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