Last week I noticed I now have over 300 followers, assuming everyone who ever followed still is. A huge assumption that and all that goes with it. Three hundred might not seem like a lot to those who have followers reaching towards four digits. Or it might seem like a lot to those who published their first post sometime this weekend. I know that I’m happy that 300 people think enough of the stuff I push to the Internet to want to know when something new gets pushed there and to me that seems like an accomplishment all in itself.
I got to wondering how the first person who decided to follow my blog even found it. I’ve never published it on any social platform. It’s not linked to a Facebook or Twitter or any other account. I can count on one hand and have at least two fingers left over the number of people I’ve told that twice a week they could read questionably creative ramblings of mine if they so cared. So…how did you come about to be reading this? Inquiring minds and all that, you know.
I follow about a dozen blogs and about another dozen I have loaded onto my browser’s favorites list. I guess that’s not a really great quid pro quo ratio. I’d follow all three hundred of those who follow me but some of the notices I’ve received of a follower don’t include a blog for me to seek to see if I would like a steady dose of their offerings. And in fairness (real or imagined) of all those that I do follow, not all follow me in return. I’m fine with that. I can see myself more interested in someone’s writing and want to follow him or her more closely that that someone might be interested in mine and would prefer to only occasionally peek into my brain, psyche, or whatever corporal component is putting fingers to keyboard that week. You can’t like everything you find crossing your path in life.
Still I wonder why some do, some don’t, and would some others if they even knew that it is available. What makes us like one thing, not like another, and not care enough about some to form an opinion?
Now that I think about it, I should probably stop before I lose the few of you that are still out there. I don’t know if Word Press counts to negative numbers.
That’s what I think. Really. How ’bout you?
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I stopped trying to figure out where the followers on the T&T came to be – I just welcome ’em all.
I think I started following your blog when you followed me after I posted a survey that Sheepy posted on her blog that she posted after you called her out on it.
I think I just wrote myself into a pretzel…
Oh yes, that sounds familiar. Thank you. Yeah, I suppose it really doesn’t matter how we get to where we go. However I got to yours I’ve enjoyed being there and reading you. And thank you also for visiting here so often.
Now, about that pretzel. Would you care for some cheese to go with it?
I’m from Wisconsin…Cheese is in my blood 😀
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I’m sure if I followed you first it was because you tagged your post with a subject I follow like: travel, writing, family, humor…that’s how I find post to like. Congrats on building a reader base!
Thank you. If I followed you first it could have been because of your Gravatar. I’ve also been known to choose a bottle of wine by the picture in the label and not regret that decision either. (You probably shouldn’t mention that to anyone while you’re in France.)
I find and follow blogs by their tags. I follow subjects so if you tag one of the subjects I like to read about, you end up in my reader. I do try to initially follow everyone who follows my blog but if they are trying to sell something, I unfollow. I share my own blog posts to my Facebook page. About half my views come from Facebook but almost all my followers are other bloggers. Congrats on you growing readership!
I’ve thought about this a bit since I posted this. Not how people got to me but how I got to others and I think most of how I found the blogs that I follow are through comments those people made on other blogs. I figure if their comments are any good then their own writing must be terrific. And it usually works out. But I still think it was your avatar that drew me to you with even greater than expected results. Hmm, now I’ve got myself wondering how I found that first blog.
By the way, I can’t wait to see the next entry in the survivor journal. Clearly you have to survive. Too many of us are on the edges of our seats!
I am in the throes of my survival now. Pray for me and Devil. 🙏🏻
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