Commentary

[fatrockstar]

Do you prefer to be a commentER or a commentEE? Me, I'm not very good at commenting even though I read damn near everything that hits my f-page. I figure that goes for everyone, so I'm not too worried about receiving comments. If I truly don't want to deal with comments I disable them.

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Comments

[crazy-talk23.livejournal.com]

i like both - it just depends on what's going on with me if i can comment sometimes... i read every day. other times i have nothing to offer.. so i need a "both when possible" option :)

[winifred.livejournal.com]

I'm on the "nothing to offer" side of the fence, too. More often than not I'll end up thinking something and then not sharing it online.

[blowtorch-betty.livejournal.com]

Like you, I read almost everything but rarely comment. Hell, I rarely post anymore either. As for getting comments, on specific things it can be nice but mostly yeah, it doesn't much matter.

[winifred.livejournal.com]

There is life beyond the internet! I really, really need to find it.

[niroc.livejournal.com]

I really wouldn't be able to chose... I love getting comments, but I also love giving them to others. I might be slightly more inclined to say receive though, because I write about things in my life that I'd like a second opinion on. But that's the only thing going for "receive", "give" is sometimes more fun because you know you're helping someone or you just brighten their day with a funny comment.

[winifred.livejournal.com]

That's good to know. I hadn't given much thought to writing with that intent. Some things I wonder if they'll generate a response, but for the most part I write because it's fun. And to vent. And to kill time.

[niroc.livejournal.com]

I always write what's on my mind, however strange it may be. ^_^ And it is fun, it's the only way I've ever been able to keep a journal. ;D
Though killing time does come into it, too, sometimes. ^_^

[mrshellion.livejournal.com]

I admit it, I'm a comment whore, and like the rest, I read, but don't comment a lot. I learned, too, that when you don't give, you don't generally get, either. Go figure!

[winifred.livejournal.com]

Hahaha I can see that. I found out a long time ago (when I was blogging on wynnec.com) that people are reading and soaking in what I have to say whether they comment or not. How, you ask? It certainly wasn't by email back then -- I got phone calls! In the days before comments were available to me, my friends and family would read and then CALL my ass. *awkward!*

I was a lot more outspoken then.

[mrshellion.livejournal.com]

I was a lot more outspoken then.

Hmmm.... what changed?

Also, you know, I'm bored today, reading old entries from January 2003 and that means you've been on my friends list for OVER four years. Crazy.

[winifred.livejournal.com]

I think I wrote some humor about my then-18yo sister that caused uproar in their little town of Podunk, Alabama. While the response from non-family was positive, my mother was not amused. Then there was the essay I wrote on the history of my paternal grandparents, based on letters only I had ever read, that made my father's brothers start hollerin' (apparently the legend of Fred & JoBeth CANNOT be altered).

These days most of my best work (drama) is based on people who are more online now than ever before, and consists of mainly family members. While I love my family, they make me laugh at (and with) them, and I can't not share that amusement.