Comments on: Social Reciprocity

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By: Byaghro

Byaghro — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:20:44 +0000

@Sam
You’re only better than me at the things I let you be better than me at, sir! :p

@Everyone
I still haven’t seen anyone comment on why they even follow me… come on people, I like the occasional ego boost!

In all seriousness, I am in the process of going through my Feed Reader and updating links when I’m done. While I’m doing so if anyone would like to request that I look over their content and decide whether to link to them or not, now is the time!

By: pewter

pewter — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:38:02 +0000

I completely agree. There are people I ‘follow’ but don’t actively read. Some people I read through twitter out of personal interest, others I’m following as a ‘blogger community thing’ because I know they are read by other bloggers and influence the posts of other bloggers. Yet more I follow because of a shaman connection

I’m always going through a process of weeding and tending to my public blog roll. There are a couple of people I won’t link to because I often find their opinions outright offensive, but I still read privately because they are somewhat influential and I like to know the context of current blogosphere blogstorms.
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By: Samodean

Samodean — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:01:24 +0000

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Which is quite amazing when you consider that I’m usually better than you at everything.

In all seriousness, though, I completely agree. If someone wants me to link/follow/friend/whatever them, then all they need is content I’m interested in, or that I feel my readers would be interested in. At no point do I expect anyone, for any reason, to return the favor. Hell, even calling it a favor is too much, that implies an expectation of reciprocation.

If I don’t feel I’m being linked to enough, then I guess I better work on my writing, make my work something WORTH linking to. If someone’s not following me on Twitter… it’s freaking TWITTER! Seriously, I have a hard time believing those that do follow me give half a crap about most of the nonsense I spout on there.

And that’s the thing about Twitter. There’s a LOT of information passing through there. I’m following over 100 people, many of which don’t return the follow, nor would I expect them to. If I return-followed many of MY followers, that’s just too bloody much to keep up with. But, if someone has something interesting to say, I’m more than happy to check them out.
.-= Samodean´s last blog ..Final Fantasy XIII Final Thoughts =-.

By: Poneria

Poneria — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:54:00 +0000

“If you choose to base whether you friend/follow/link someone due to their choice of reciprocating the action then, quite frankly, I take very little stock in your recommendations/friendship”
This.
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By: zelmaru

zelmaru — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:47:20 +0000

I completely agree with this! Remember, just because you put all sorts of blogs on your blogroll, the other person whom you linked may be limiting his/her blogroll to people who post concerning a specific profession. It’s rarely personal.

That’s one reason I separated my twitter accounts. One is for site updates only. One is for my general blah blah. If someone wants site updates via twitter but doesn’t want to hear how I did Twig’s hair this morning, I’m not insulted. We don’t all have time to read EVERYTHING.

On twitter, also, if you’re not following someone, you’re NOT READING their stuff (unless you follow through RSS). But with blogs, just because you’re not on my blogroll doesn’t mean I don’t READ – and a lot of the people who comment on my blog don’t have it on their blogroll. Linking is not the same as reading.

Ultimately though – if you write quality work, it will get read. If you write crap, nobody will read it. Links on other people’s sites, follows, etc won’t change that.
.-= zelmaru´s last blog ..Upranking Your Spells (So You Don’t Look Like a Moron) =-.