To Comment or Not to Comment?
So I admit, I can be a cowardly commenter.
I don't know exactly why, but there are some blogs where I am intimidated to comment, even though nobody on that blog is particularly intimidating. I should know, too, as a blogger that unless you are trashing the author, comments are almost always appreciated. I always get a secret thrill when reading the comments people are nice enough to leave. You like me, you really like me!
So what gives? I am not what I would call shy, so it isn't that.
Sometimes on the larger blogs, people have already kind of said pretty much everything there is to say about the post. My comment would just be sort of a "Yeah, what they just said!" type, which I dislike to do unless I know the person.
Or perhaps I put too much pressure on myself to be witty and engaging in my comments. I really do try to be entertaining, and sometimes if I can't be, then I just consider discretion to be the better part of valor. Is that a bad thing?
Perhaps it is just the risk, the uncertainty of sending off your personal thoughts out into cyberspace, usually never quite knowing if the author had a little chuckle, or if they immediately hit the "delete" button.
Just know that I pretty much never delete comments.
Unless you are a certain person from Texas, and then sometimes.
I don't know exactly why, but there are some blogs where I am intimidated to comment, even though nobody on that blog is particularly intimidating. I should know, too, as a blogger that unless you are trashing the author, comments are almost always appreciated. I always get a secret thrill when reading the comments people are nice enough to leave. You like me, you really like me!
So what gives? I am not what I would call shy, so it isn't that.
Sometimes on the larger blogs, people have already kind of said pretty much everything there is to say about the post. My comment would just be sort of a "Yeah, what they just said!" type, which I dislike to do unless I know the person.
Or perhaps I put too much pressure on myself to be witty and engaging in my comments. I really do try to be entertaining, and sometimes if I can't be, then I just consider discretion to be the better part of valor. Is that a bad thing?
Perhaps it is just the risk, the uncertainty of sending off your personal thoughts out into cyberspace, usually never quite knowing if the author had a little chuckle, or if they immediately hit the "delete" button.
Just know that I pretty much never delete comments.
Unless you are a certain person from Texas, and then sometimes.
Comments
Everyone seems so brilliant out there and then there's me. There are only so many ways to say "what an adorable baby, cat, puppy" even though I mean it sincerely when I'm saying it.
I don't like to just lurk because I think bloggers deserve to know someone is out there enjoying what they've said. (If in fact I did - otherwise I go quietly away).
I love receiving comments so please come comment on granny anytime.
Ann
I always welcome a comment from you though, Gina!
I never expect that anything I have to say is comment worthy, so each and every one is a pleasure to read!
(why oh why do I have such a hard time reading your word verification letters? They are such a crazy font! Is it a j, or an i? It's all so confusing!)
Umm..yeah, what they said!
Some days I am the phantom reader...
Perhaps on those "should I?" comment days...I will experiment with a simple "dito." Hmmmmmm. That might be fun!
:)
So, I'm in Texas is it me? or just every one in Texas. Are we so big as to I don't know... we all don't wear boots ya know. LOL