Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Thing #7 Creating Community Through Commenting
Commenting is the "thread" that ties blogs together. The thoughts and ideas of others spark inspiration in readers. As I have read through blogs, I have been encouraged to try and make my comments more appealing and thought-provoking. I like to read blogs to get ideas, but until this class I seldom wanted to comment for fear that people didn't want to know my point of view. I don't want to come across the wrong way, but I do see now as this class progresses that commenting is extremely important to the relevance of a blog. I was recently reading about a guy whose wife died 4 days after giving birth to their daughter and he began to blog (I can't remember where I read this information to give you the blog address, but I will keep looking and post it if I find it) about his experiences for healing and for his daughter to know what it was like for him and her in those days, weeks, months after the mother's death. The article, which reinforces the important of commenting, mentioned that the father's blog has so many followers, mostly women, who have helped him through is ordeal. One reader, who was male, didn't understand why his wife was so enthralled with helping this man until he, too read his blog and sent his own comments. What an amazing situation where a tragedy can be turned into a positive, helpful experience through blogging.
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I do not feel comfortable sharing such personal information in a blog as these you described. I think it may be generational issues (private family is private family). But, I can appreciate your views.
ReplyDeleteI'm not so sure I would be so personal either.
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