I read some comments on fb today about bloggers and people who read blogs and even worse people who comment on blogs. To this person I would say put yourself in the conversation and then judge. I love how blogging lets you meet other people that you would never connect with in real life because of location, etc. Here, on a site like wordpress, you can search for your interests and exchange ideas with like minds or dig into a fun (heated) debate with someone with views completely different from your own.
Back in the day, folks could meet at the local diner, restaurant, tavern, inn, etc. and sit and shoot the breeze. In America, things work differently today. Not all of America, but a lot of it. A blog site or social networking site can easily be viewed as a virtual recreation of the old town commons, not restricted by geography.
I just like yapping. One could say I write because I like the sound of my own voice. I just like being able to empty my mind at the end of the day with whatever is still floating around in it. Uncle Stevie once commented, and this is paraphrased, that everyone’s mind has a sieve and sorts out different thoughts. Some ideas will fall right the the holes and others will stick. In his case, the ideas that stick are the dark ones. The thoughts that stick in my sieve are eclectic, like my decorating.
I don’t tweet and fb doesn’t seem to have enough space for what I want to express, so I blog. Happily, if someone doesn’t like blogs, they can choose not to read them. I like to write them and read them. A friend started one just the other day and now I’ll have another one to enjoy.
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Blog Spam Comments
Posted in Musings and Epiphanies, tagged blog, blogging, comments, spam on July 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »
I love reading the spam comments for my blog. One of my favorite things to do is check how many fine folks may have read posts each day. The numbers are small and, while it would be lovely to have massive numbers every day instead of once or twice a year, I love simply having even one person reading something each day. Another favorite part of blogging, for me, are the spam comments.
While more legitimate comments would be cool, the spam ones are so entertaining. To fully appreciate my appreciation of these comments, remember that I manage a writing center. These comments could be used for tutor training-they are so poorly written! Verbs in the wrong place, misplaced modifiers galore, and random article usage. It is a hoot for someone like me to decipher possible meaning from these computer generated comments.
They try to sound so caring about my blog. And then they give advice on how to grow the traffic. The advice may make sense, but the writing is so poor that I can’t bear to read it enough times to find the clarity.
Sometimes I am tempted to write random comments on other blogs, but that is probably poor blogging etiquette. Creating additional spam comments is most likely frowned upon.
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