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It would be cool if more of my friends followed my blog. It’d be cool to see that Networked blog counter grow to actually match the number of friends I actually have.
Then again it would be cool to have more people follow me on Twitter or add my RSS feed to their feed reader or add my website to their blogroll.
However that’s not going to happen- and it’s ok.
Because a lot of my friends don’t have blogrolls or Twitter, much less understand how widgets on Facebook work.
I’m that friend, not the Token Asian, but the token techno geek.
Besides friends I have made through blogging, I think I’m the only one my many social circles that actively writes in blogs and engages in social media tools like Twitter.
While on The OBX this past year we were eating pizza while somebody was trying to explain what was this new phenomenon called Twitter.
Falkor piped up that I must be on it- and he was right.
Facebook and Gmail is more ubiquitous in our culture, however Twitter and blogging isn’t contrary to what you would believe.
In fact when I hang out with my friends, and they ask, “what’s up.” I’ll just retell stories I blogged about- because I know a lot of my friends don’t read my blog.
Now I have a small audience and that’s really great- because in the end I write in this blog, for myself first. However I do appreciate my audience and I am glad you find me interesting.
I just find it really interesting how my blog has grown to become a good part of my life and while it’s open for the public to consume, it remains largely untouched by some groups of my friends.
Maybe I’m just more plugged-in than they are.
I agree. I have a personal blog that I have mentioned to several people and I know of only two (maybe three) of my friends that actually read it. Granted, it's mostly just babbling and I'm glad some people haven't read it but for me, it's an outlet to get my thoughts together and reassess what it is that I want/need from life. I had a Twitter account years ago but I felt like a stalker and canceled it only to have to re-activate it for work. I hardly use it still.
Even as of late, I've been thinking about even taking down my blog. I mean nothing I say is remotely interesting to anyone else. At least I don't think so. There are the far and few between witty banters but nothing to get overly excited about and say "HEY, read this!" on my FB status. So for the most part I just either use the standby email or phone call for those that I care to share my latest fiasco or victory with.
I know what you mean. I, too, expected more of my friends to be interested in my personal blog, but only three or four seem to drop by on a regular basis. I thought my parents, for sure, would check in from time to time, but every time I re-tell a story I've blogged, they at least make a good show of never having heard it before.
None of my (real-life) friends have blogs, and only a couple are on Twitter, but almost all of them are on Facebook. To me the three seem fundamentally similar -- writing and following blogs takes a little more effort, but they're all forms of self-publishing. I especially don't get the difference between Twitter and Facebook participation -- does non-reciprocal following turn people away? (I prefer it, myself.)
Sometimes I feel like writing a blog and following a few dozen others in my feed reader make me part of a secret world that the people around me have never heard of. It's eerie.
Romny - Thanks for reading, I left a reply on my blog
Natalie - We are part of a secret world perhaps, I mean look we're all members of Brazen Careerist!
So true- Not everyone in Gen Y is loving Twitter.. I myself have harbored an aversion for sometime. I can't really explain why - maybe just fear of the unknown??
Twitter, much like a lot of social media- has a lot of potential in the technology and reach, but little is known on how to effectively wield it. Anyone can get a Twitter account but we don't know what sticks to the wall and what doesn't. Sure there's a lot of users that use it like microblogging, and that seems to work but there's so many more people that use it as another chat client.
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