I have been thinking about my blog and the fact that sometimes there are no comments left on my posts no matter what I put in them and I can't help but wonder if I am just committing an act of mental masturbation by posting anything on here. Is it just another way of stroking my ego and making myself feel better about my problems simply by writing them down, or is it, as I had hoped, a way of reaching out and touching people who I would have no way of conecting with otherwise? Does anything I have to say or any opinion I have about anything, including myself, really mean anything or matter in any way to anyone other than me? I feel that I have a lot to say about a lot of things, both personal and wider issues, but I need to know that there is any point in actually putting them down in writing or else it all just seems futile.
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I think that if it helps you to write things down then continue to do it. I am having trouble at the moment to find anything to say to anyone at the moment but enjoy reading what you write. if I don't reply it is because I don't have anything to say that I feel may help, and I am sure there are others out there that feel the same way!
 | Kizlode [Member] 26/02/06 @ 17:38 |
I'm not really sure that writing things down really makes any difference and I think that's part of the problem. I understand what you mean about not always knowing what to say or not knowing if anything you do say will help, I feel the same at times as well. I think that the problem lays with me more than anything else, it's another manifestation of my insecurity. Oh, joy 
26/02/06 @ 16:55
Keep in mind that there are millions of blogs now and that many start off on the suggestion of a friend who has no comments and becomes the sole commentator to the enlisted friends blog (and vice-versa) and that the pit of the average internet user only 4% ever look at blogs and you may not feel so bad. On the other hand you may feel every bit as abject.
If you invite many, many people to become 'friends' then you may increase the likelihood of comments but then you may also be expected to comment on things as diverse as a recipe for Lancashire Hot pot to an entry swearing that Crystals healed their dog of distemper. Blogging is reaching saturation point and good, serious blogs are hard to find outside of professional blogs dealing with a particular subject and advertised.
| Kizlode [Member] 26/02/06 @ 17:43 |
I do take your points about the ammount of blogs there are out there and the diversity of them, and I know that there may not be a problem of any kind. I really think it has more to do with my own feelings of self-worth, I have an ego that behaves more like a cat and demands stroking on a regular basis but only when it wants it. Things like these feelings of nobody being interested in what I have to say are really not that important, they are just my ego complaining that it hasn't been stroked for a while, and I try to ignor it but sometimes it's difficult
26/02/06 @ 18:08
Self Worth or lack of it is a problem and it may be exacerbated by blogging - in my opinion see:
My advice is if you want visibility then topics have to be chosen and written to quickly engage readers and that still has the curse of the sheer anonymity of a professional blogsite to overcome.
 | dentedhalo [Member] 09/03/06 @ 05:18 |
I am so glad that I could read this entry... I have always felt that exact same way and never really knew how to express it. And I also wanted to let you know that even though there a not always comments; there are people who read what you have to say, and there people who are happy to know that there are others who have the same thoughts
Thanks!
| Kizlode [Member] 09/03/06 @ 11:52 |
Thanks for your comment, I guess that sometimes I just need to know that there are others out there that I can connect with.
I'm glad to hear from you, I've checked your blog a few times and was worried that you'd given up.
Thank you for careing
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