I am encouraging all my followers and others interested in my blog to comment away. Your feedback is always welcome. I encourage kindness, respect, constructive criticism and engaging dialogue. Comments are cool on my page. Keep on blogging and commenting good people!
I try to leave positive comments on blogs and even on Facebook when possible. These days comments can be a landmine that can hurt your heart and mind. We live in a time when everyone has a pulpit and something to say. Feedback is great but it can also be surprising. It hurts even more when a friend speaks from a place of fear and ignorance. Being online isn’t for sissies anymore that is for sure. Kindness I hope still means something but sometimes you aren’t sure if its the thing to do anymore. Read the comments at your own peril, if you dare.
Do you mind when someone comments on your blog too much? Is it possible to wear out ones welcome? I don’t mind frequent visits but some folks could be bothered. What do you think?
Complimenting and commentary are tricky things.
I fear commenting on stuff a lot of times because I am left-of-center on many issues. Everyone has the right to their opinion but when yours goes against many of your friends it can become a problem. There are times I need to keep silent so that friendships can remain. I don’t know but I don’t have a lot of really tight friendships in this life so sometimes I have to keep silent.
Maybe I don’t fall for the lemming thing and I have chosen to think on my own. Maybe not having a great number of friends has freed me to form independent opinions on things which has informed me about the world in a deeper way. On Facebook and even Twitter there are debates of the day which has raised the volume of rhetoric and venom among people who have been life-long friends. Perhaps I choose to be different and the voice of what is fair, just, inclusive and loving.
So do I comment or choose friendship…that is a tough one.
It is important to comment on a blog post because it gives the author/writer some great feedback that can guide their future work. However if your comment is not one of greeting or related to the topic being discussed in then perhaps one should just get offline and do something else with your time. Comments on the posts topic is a sign you are paying attention. None of you who follow me do that but there are spammers who like to do that sort of thing. Keeping on point is a wonderful thing though.
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