Sorry for the complete lack of posting lately. Been super busy and I’ve had nothing to say. Not a good combination for blogging.
So Sunny does this thing she likes to call “blog surfing”. I think it’s akin to channel surfing (which appeals to my Y chromosome), only she does it with blogs. For the life of me, I don’t get it. She’ll go to somebody’s page, somebody she knows and appreciates. She’ll read what this friend has posted, maybe leave a comment…you know, the usual stuff. Then she’ll click on a link from that person’s page to someone else’s page. This, of course, is a friend of Sunny’s friend. She might not really know them, but she knows of them. She’s read enough of their comment’s on said friend’s page to feel a sense of connectivity with this random person. So she’ll peruse their blog, but she usually won’t leave a comment. Then comes the real kicker. Sunny will then click on one of the “Community” or “Friends” links and navigate from that person’s page to yet another person’s page. This is somebody that Sunny has absolutely no connection with at all…I mean, “a friend of a friend” is a pretty weak connection, but by the time you’ve made this many moves, it’s beyond redemption logically. But Sunny will read all of the posts that this random person has made and then follow her links to yet another page, then another, and another….until she’s surfed her way all across the continent. She’s still raving about the blog of some lumberjack’s wife in Montana who posts her family recipes to the web every week. I kid you not.
My point is this: I have a hard enough time reading the blogs of people I actually care about. What’s the draw in reading the blogs of people you don’t even know? Please tell me what I’m missing. My theory is that this is a completely female thing and I’ll never understand it.
Ladies, am I right?
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You’d be amazed at how many old friends you find by blog surfing. Just yesterday, I found 4 friends that I went to Harding with because I clicked on one random person’s comment…Try it, you’ll like it!
It’s probably more of a personality thing than a gender thing. I do the same thing.
I think it is more of a female thing than a male thing, though I also find it hard to have the time to do it much. It’s kind of intriguing (if that’s spelled right) to read about what goes on in other people’s lives. Maybe for the same reason that some people get hooked on reality TV??? I do like to come across those that I can relate to. For instance, I get on a triplet website called Triplet Connection and enjoy reading blogs of other triplet moms. Guess Sunny feels some kind of connection to the lumberjack wife. 🙂 Ha, ha!
I just use a reader. But I do access a lot of blogs of people I don’t know.
Dude, how do you think I got here?
I read several blogs a day – I started the exact same way. I find the ones I’m interested in and keep going back.
I have to agree w/ Keith on this one. I found yours on a link from Lucy’s
Okay, I’ve been out of pocket for the morning. I need to defend myself – you make me sound like I am a stalker of sorts. Fist of all, the guy is a cowboy and second, I love cooking and enjoy “watching” her cook through pictures. For some reason, I really enjoy surfing the blogs. I, like Anna, find the twins blogs and read them. I have also found lots of friends from high school by accessing other people’s blogs. I know that it may sound weird, but I really enjoy these other blogs. I have also made “blog” friends and have met a few over the past few months. Once you get out there, you really realize how small this world can be.
Sunny, you are a stalker.Just kidding.I have no problem checking out the blogs of people I went to high school or college with. I know those people. It’s reading the lumberjack’s wife’s blog that I don’t get. To each his own, I guess. By the way, Donnie & Keith, welcome!
It’s just a small world and for a mommy home with 3 small kiddo’s its a short escape from reality. Yes, I would find a connection w/ Mrs. Lumberjack too if she had a recipe that was a hit with my family. Sharing a recipe is like giving a piece of yourself away!
Since I’m relatively new to blogging, how do you “find” them? Is there a specific search engine or something? The ones I found were all a result of Mike Cope’s. I stumbled on it and looked at ones he read, then at ones those folks read, and so on and on.
Belinda, wish I could help you. I get the impression most people “find” people by reading someone’s blog that takes them to someone else’s and so on. I don’t know of any specific search engine or anything. Facebook has that kind of function.