After yesterday’s discussion on numbers I had a look through the list of people I follow. I’m surprised by the number of them that haven’t posted for a year or more. I’m also surprised by how few of them I actually remember.
A quick survey of 18 people I follow indicates that a third of them haven’t posted for a year or more and quite a few of the others haven’t posted for over a month.
The sample is from the earlier days of my WP use, but if you allow for this it’s still likely that I’m following several hundred people who no longer exist as bloggers.
As for the ones I don’t remember, it’s unlikely they remember me either, so they can probably go too.
I first came across this false friend syndrome on Facebook. I joined because the Nottingham RFC U16s were touring in Canada and the idea was for them to communicate with the parents via Facebook. In fact they didn’t post much as they had better things to do. I stayed as a member for a while but the inane communications and spurious friends irritated me so much that I deregistered and have never gone back.
If anyone has recently started following me, please don’t think any of this is aimed at you, it isn’t. Unless you are a site with a business name in your title. I tend not to reciprocate when business sites follow me as I don’t believe they are following me for my content, just to build up followers.
It’s a funny old world.
In the next post I hope to be more interesting, so keep an eye open for it.
One final comment – having tried to find a suitable photo for the top of the post I find the old problems have returned. It looks like it’s only the new editor that will allow me full access to my photographs.
Bah!
A sad fact of the blogging world is that bloggers come and go. Many of them don’t even note why they are leaving. Fortunately, most often, it’s because they have run out of steam with their blogs rather than because of some dreadful illness.
It can be hard sometimes, so I understand why people drift away. It’s a shame, because I liked a lot of them.
So true! And you wonder what happened, crossing your fingers that it’s nothing bad.
Yes, the not knowing can be a worry.
We’ll never forget you, Quercus 🙂
🙂 That’s good to know.
As if you didn’t 🙂
🙂 Thank you Derrick.
I have at times been concerned by reading a blog without commenting. But in the end we do seem to stick with blogs that interested us in the first place. At the moment I have been posting once or twice a day and have ignored everyone else. Tonight I am trying to apologise for being tardy.
I think most people appreciate how much work it is to blog anYou have had a lot on recently.
I carefully manage my follows. I like to keep them to about 30 or so.
I wish I’d thought about it a bit more before starting to follow everyone who follows me…
I read this blog carefully and with respect.
Thank you. You are a true gem amongst bloggers. 🙂