parallel blogoverse
Oct 25th, 2009 by lesley
Sometimes when I bump into someone from the Blog Feed in real life, I forget that I’ve just read or commented on one of their posts. In my head, there are two versions of the same person - the real world one, and the online one - and sometimes I forget they’re actually the same person. If I do remember, it feels strange to bring it up. Like it’s out of context, or would be like referring to a conversation that we had two months ago. Another time and place, which in an odd way, it is! So I generally don’t say anything. So, if you are one of those people, don’t take it personally. Is it just me, or do other people feel like this too about people’s blogs?
I only read my own blog
I find it odd to bring up things with people who I know, or suspect read my blog, but they never mention it and never comment. It’s kinda like we both have a secret that they know a lot more about me than they let on, and we both just don’t mention it.
But I’m generally happy to refer to blog comment conversations in physical life.
.. I have a similar sort of feeling at times .. as if mentioning a blog post or comment is just not the thing to do.
I think I’m with Tom, I’m happy to talk about blogs in real life. In fact sometimes it is a good conversation starter….