tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post6174402488175171526..comments2024-03-11T19:40:23.089+00:00Comments on Views from the bike shed: Talking to strangersThe bike shedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-35430429299264639092010-11-21T21:50:25.867+00:002010-11-21T21:50:25.867+00:00What a great and thought provoking piece of writin...What a great and thought provoking piece of writing! I arrived here tonight because of "Veg Plotting" and ended up on this post of yours from 2009...it's the first time I have read words truly describing how I feel about blogging. Many thanks.<br /><br />I loved this especially:<br /><br />"Because publishing gives me an incentive to write more clearly, to care about the words".<br /><br />Beautiful.Gardeningbrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10709940044197929905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-73002605637794661422009-11-29T14:57:47.094+00:002009-11-29T14:57:47.094+00:00Crumbs I'm soooooo ignorant about these things...Crumbs I'm soooooo ignorant about these things. I've just found out about Tweetups, where Twitter users arrange to meet up.<br /><br />There's one which happens regularly in Southampton, that even has its own blog!<br /><br />I suppose the underlying message with what I've been saying is that perhaps it still needs the good old face to face meeting for these kind of things to stand the best chance of crossing through into what we would usually say is a real friendship.<br /><br />Looks like your son's re-defining that word though, I wonder if the next generation's doing that pretty much wholesale?VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-24349680583965851382009-11-29T10:28:23.633+00:002009-11-29T10:28:23.633+00:00I read this just over a week ago and it's been...I read this just over a week ago and it's been in my thoughts since then.<br /><br />I think of the people I 'meet' through blogging as just like any other people I meet anywhere else. You'll always meets loads, many of these evolve into colleagues or acquaintances and a tiny proportion will become firm friends.<br /><br />The latter group's probably the hardest because it's just much harder work with a computer. It takes ages to type things, you don't get the full emotions and body language behind what's being said and the conversation's one-sided, even though it's 2 way over time.<br /><br />However, it is possible to gain friends in this way, certainly through blogging, but I'm not so sure via social media like Twitter and Facebook. Via blogging may be more difficult in places like the States because of the distances involved, but it's certainly possible here in the UK.VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-55316331060508779012009-11-22T08:01:01.904+00:002009-11-22T08:01:01.904+00:00I was a lawyer and loved it because the whole thin...I was a lawyer and loved it because the whole thing to me was about communication....helping someone to get their point of view heard in a forum totally alien to them and, with a bit of luck, helping them to obtain reasonable treatment. Not criminal law, I hasten to add...I know that some people find it thrilling to mix with axe murderers, druggies and beaters up of old ladies, but I am not of their number.<br />I started to blog to explain to friends why my view of France did not accord with what they were reading in the magazines and books about 'living the dream' and have, much to my delight,received kind, interesting and amusing comments from fellow bloggers whose work in turn has opened my mind and gives me very real pleasure.<br />I have friends who use both Twitter and Facebook, but I don't think that the continual exchange suits me...it gets in the way of reading a book, I suppose!the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-56278377529342502842009-11-21T19:12:17.312+00:002009-11-21T19:12:17.312+00:00I blog because I love to write and I do find the f...I blog because I love to write and I do find the feedback you get from comments is a real spur to write more. I am on twitter and facebook too but that is more a toe in the water just to get a sense of how social media work. It is blogging that has become a part of my daily life.Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-51130585938158922402009-11-21T15:11:16.183+00:002009-11-21T15:11:16.183+00:00For the first three years of my blog I received ju...For the first three years of my blog I received just a handful of comments. The thing is that I never began it in a 'look at me and my blog' kind of way. I wanted to document our new life in France and I liked the fact there would be a record of it in perpetuity and not in a notebook or journal that could be lost or torn. When I did begin getting comments it gave me a little filip of delight, then I began getting more and more and it was lovely - I felt I had connected with people and I now think of them as my friends - true friends that know so many of the innermost thoughts that my real life friends do not.<br /><br />I wouldn't discuss things like this with people like lawyers - they would never understand and, the thing is, if amongst this group there was a secret Tweeter or Facebooker, they would probably never own up to it.<br /><br />My Facebook friends are some bloggers, some family and some real life friends (although my closest friends are not on there - no, they're not lawyers). As for Twitter, in which I am a newbie, it is fun.French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-83918577481971646052009-11-21T10:14:35.736+00:002009-11-21T10:14:35.736+00:00I agree with Steve on the reasons for blogging, th...I agree with Steve on the reasons for blogging, though I wouldn't say I feel it 'needs' to be read. Having said that, if nobody leaves a comment, I begin to think 'why bother, nobody's interested' but maybe that has more to do with my seeking admiration/approval/congratulations? Who knows..... and isn't it strange, the younger generation's views of 'personal friends'? So different to ours. I wouldn't call anyone I exchange blog comments with, a friend. An acquaintance maybe, I only know what they tell me, what I glean from their comments, which isn't usually very deep and meaningful. But that doesn't matter...in the main I am happy for the lightness of this relationship with fellow bloggers, though there are the occasional ones who intrigue me and I wish I knew them better.pinkfairygranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09497901949136714254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-2037445894010989702009-11-21T09:54:26.004+00:002009-11-21T09:54:26.004+00:00Quite simply, I blog because I need / love to writ...Quite simply, I blog because I need / love to write... and once I have written something it needs to be read... blogging is the perfect outlet. It's also a discipline in itself - to come up with a wide variety of subjects and not only making them interesting but also accessible to an outside unknown audience.... tha challenge and the sometimes challenging feedback is addictive.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.com