I finally did it. A while back, I set myself a goal to give at least as many comments on others' blog posts as I had received. Having received 108 comments in my AR "career", I finally did it today, giving my 111th comment to a fellow Rainer.
Now before you go thinking that this was a really superficial goal, let me just say that for me it was all about giving and receiving, and that I don't make any comments lightly. (Well, sometimes I try to be "light" in my comments, but I don't go commenting everywhere just willy-nilly.)
If we all think back to when we were new at blogging, I'm sure we can remember what a thrill it was to actually receive comments on our blog posts. "Wow, someone actually READ what I wrote!"
Versus: "There go my thoughts and words out into cyberspace again, to be scooped up by some giant garberator, mashed into the bits and bytes they really are, and scuttled out of the atmosphere like all the other space junk out there."
So, having felt "Oh, I got a comment! I actually got a comment!" on numerous occasions ("numerous" being a very relative term, OK?), I started to feel selfish when the number of comments I received far outweighed the number of comments I had given to others. So I set myself a goal and went to work on it.
It's taken me a while to get the balance back, because I wanted my comments to be meaningful, or at the very least to be in response to blog posts that were meaningful to me. But finally, today, mission accomplished! And I feel so much better now.
(Though I don't smell much better, because once again I have spent the first part of my day on Active Rain versus getting showered and dressed first!! What the dillio? Next goal: No playing in the Rain before getting showered, for Pete's sake.)
Do any of you have similar goals related to blogging, commenting or generating business from AR (or related to personal hygiene before blogging)? I'd love to hear them.
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