Preaching to the choir

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Who cares if blogs aren't read? Most people use them as diaries anyway, and those are supposed to remain stuffed under a mattress!! Sure, if you post "interesting content", you will inevitably catch an eyeball trolling through. However, the benefits of that visiting eyeball may not compensate for the effort it takes to keep a blog "interesting".

Take my blog - I try to only post things that I would consider "interesting to others", because to me, a blog should act as a beacon to attract other people who share my interests. And yet, nobody reads it, or even if hundreds of people read it every day, nobody leaves a comment, making the whole effort useless to me.

You know what the problem is? Unless you post something inflammatory, hilarious, or clearly wrong, most people have no reason to comment. And if that's the best course for racking up the responses, then who cares what people think anyway? Fuck 'em.

So factor other people out of the equation: Write what you'll read.

(If no one reads it but you, why would you write anything else?)

Comments

[thegoodreverend.livejournal.com]

Damn straight!

Though I love comments, so I tend to give a lot. Just to let people know I'm reading =) What's interesting is that my main blog has become so popular with friends, family, coworkers, etc. that while it's the main way I get information out to people I don't talk to one-on-one, it has to be kinda vanilla because so many people from different parts of my life are reading. But the wonder of the internet means I can have secret blogs most don't know about, or even blogs no one else knows about.

There's something for everyone, and for every occasion =)

[aquestrian.livejournal.com]

I promise to comment more often from now on. :)

Though I do read all the time.

I am a comment.

[kidontherun.livejournal.com]

I thought I should conribute to giving the effort some substance... I thought it'd be nice.