Do You Hit and Run or Leave a Note?
There are a lot of blogs out there nowadays - it seems the blogging community has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years. Which brings me right to the heart of the matter: I have way too many blogs in my Google Reader and I admit to you all right here and now - I am a lurker. Phew...I feel so much better getting that off my chest.
Lurking. It sounds so dirty, doesn't it? Like an internet crime that should be punishable by hard labor and restriction from reading for 2-5 years? Thankfully, it's not. But there are just too many good blogs on the information superhighway and just not enough time in my day to leave a comment. It's sort of like a hit-and-run, only without the consequences. Oh, sure...they know I've been there (hello all you traffic cops out there), but they don't know who I am, because I didn't leave a note on their bloggy window.
I'm trying to be better, I really am. I generally leave comments once a week or so, but I read daily. I don't expect folks to comment here (although it is oh-so-wonderful) when they visit -- especially if they don't stick around. But it's always so nice to sign on and find that someone cared enough to de-lurk, even if only to say "hi, I am reading your blog." I know somewhere, out there, people are reading. ('cause I'm the biggest traffic cop around).
let's discuss this. Are you like me -- a lurker, someone who hits and runs? Or do you try to leave a note, spreading love and sunshine wherever you go? Of course, if you are a lurker, you'll have to de-lurk just this once to weigh in on this subject, I hope you know that.
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Lurking. It sounds so dirty, doesn't it? Like an internet crime that should be punishable by hard labor and restriction from reading for 2-5 years? Thankfully, it's not. But there are just too many good blogs on the information superhighway and just not enough time in my day to leave a comment. It's sort of like a hit-and-run, only without the consequences. Oh, sure...they know I've been there (hello all you traffic cops out there), but they don't know who I am, because I didn't leave a note on their bloggy window.
I'm trying to be better, I really am. I generally leave comments once a week or so, but I read daily. I don't expect folks to comment here (although it is oh-so-wonderful) when they visit -- especially if they don't stick around. But it's always so nice to sign on and find that someone cared enough to de-lurk, even if only to say "hi, I am reading your blog." I know somewhere, out there, people are reading. ('cause I'm the biggest traffic cop around).
let's discuss this. Are you like me -- a lurker, someone who hits and runs? Or do you try to leave a note, spreading love and sunshine wherever you go? Of course, if you are a lurker, you'll have to de-lurk just this once to weigh in on this subject, I hope you know that.
Technorati Tags: blogger, lurking, Texas
Comments
How fragile is everyone's ego that someone even created this word lurking?
Sometimes, there just isn't anything to say and I'd sure rather spend the few minutes I have READING folks blogs than being forced to think of somthing to pat them on the back for.
If they are coming by repeatedly - they like you!
Me - I get 7 visitors a week - I could only HOPE for lurkers ;)
- though really, I try not to check, because I write to journal not because I think I can write.
HEY KAREN!! I'm reading!
: D
I thought my 40 feeds in Bloglines was a lot - the previous commenter has 80! I feel better now. :)
I try to be sure to leave comments on most of the blogs in my reader every so often. I know I comment on some more than others. I will almost always comment if a posting really catches my interest/attention (well -- probably about 75% of the time this happens).
See...like for me, I have had lots of people that I know "in real life" (LOL) that have mentioned before that they faithfully read my blog. But, you know what? Not a single one of them has ever commented. That's just the way it is sometimes. Actually, speaking of that, I know from Analytics that there are a whole bunch of people reading that don't comment. I'm not too worried about it though. I love comments, but I blog to record our life as it is at this moment.
And, I felt this was especially true after I just received a published book of my blog entries for last year from Blurb. That really made me realize, as I went through and read some of our antics aloud to my family, that I am blogging for us and our memories. I'm just pleased to be able to bring some people along for the ride. :)
~Leslie
http://homeschoolblogger.com/NeverAlone/
. . . though it seems today you have found a great topic for us lurkers to post on! :)