Digital immigrant

One of my tasks at work is to find blogs on which to leave comments. I’m only doing it for one client — whom I shall not name, I promise — and it is actually quite nice to do it. I’m sure that people walk past my desk and wonder why I am being ‘unproductive’ by posting on blogs…

Anyway. While it is fun to read blogs and leave comments, there are always instances where I find it difficult. Some blog posts are so well-written that there isn’t anything more to add other than “WOW” or “I’m bowing down and revering your awesomeness”. And I don’t really want to write something like that, especially not when I’m representing a client.

Other posts are boring and I skip leaving a comment.

But what kills me is when I find an amazing post. It’s amazing because it’s well-written and the author spent some time to think about the subject. It can be any blog, it doesn’t matter. So I’m in awe. And then I notice something that I can comment on. I get ready to compose a killer comment when I see the following: a long list of comments, reaching back to the day just before Noah built the ark.

Sure, this is mostly with popular blogs but sometimes it also happens with less-than-popular blogs that managed to write a killer post. So I don’t comment cause it feels as though I’ll just be another voice in the woods. Even if I have something of importance to say.

What makes you not comment on a blog post? I’d be interested to hear.

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