Literanista
September 2, 2009
and I’m annoyed!
I find a blog.
The blog is intriguing.
I read the blogs’ recent posts,
the author’s profile,
and I decide it has value to offer me.
I bookmark it.
I follow it.
I check it daily or often.
Then…
The posts stop.
Some times things happen,
people don’t post,
they go away,
or feel sick,
or what have you…
But I am a loyal reader.
I check back
again,
and then again.
And still
nada.
Now some might say
I have abandonment issues
and you know what?
That might be true
but that doesn’t make it cool.
As a blogger
you have a responsibility
to your readers.
No one asked you to blog,
you had a great idea
and you took it upon yourself
to launch it.
Now keep it going.
I’ve learned that in life
it isn’t always the person who is the brightest
or the most popular
or the most charming
or beautiful
who succeeds,
it is the person who perseveres.
The one who doesn’t give up.
The ones who dust themselves off
after each fall,
and keep right on.
If a blog
were a book
would it make sense to read it
knowing that sporadic chapters were missing
or that the author stopped writing after chapter 2, or 5, or 7?
There are blogs I have read for years
and perhaps some of these bloggers
don’t write on a daily basis,
some do, some write a lot less,
but I often check back.
The least one can do IMO is post an explanation or note – the blog has moved, is on hiatus, whatever. Don’t just vanish into webspace.
Author
Literanista
I couldn't agree with you more!! Some bloggers just fall off the face of the earth and their blog sits there neglected. If you are THAT busy, have some people do some guest posts for you. There was a blogger that did that recently and it went off quite well (I thought).
I post on average 4 times a week but that's my norm, so anything less than that might raise an eyebrow…or maybe not. I often feel as if I am chatting to myself.
You are where I am. I was reading this one blogger for a couple of years. A few months ago she just stopped blogging. I e-mailed her — not trying to be stalker-ish — and found out her offline life was beginning to be too much and so she had to give up her online life.
Such is life.
Well said. I find it so disappointing when I visit a blog and there have been no posts for months. The subject matter intrigues me and I want to know more. Committment…is key.
You know, this doesn't usually bother me. Maybe I read too many blogs. I mean, if Dooce stopped blogging, I'd notice and be disappointed (and annoyed), but frankly, most of the blogs I read (book blogs) blend into one another, and because I follow them in Google reader, I just skip from new post to new post and don't usually notice when a blogger hasn't posted in a while.
That said, I was following a blogger who had started blogging about her unexpected pregnancy, then her miscarriage and her obsession with getting pregnant again. Then she announced that she thought she was pregnant. The last post I saw–possibly her last post–indicated that her pregnancy was going swimmingly, but she wasn't letting herself get excited about it because of the previous miscarriage. I wanted to know what happened. But after three or four months, I figured it was either really good news or really bad news and either way she was done writing about it. But, yes, I would've appreciated a signing off message.
Wow, I wonder what happened.
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