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Oct. 18, 2008
Adult vs. Kid Bloggers
Before I get to what I want to talk about, I just wanted to say that it's October (in Washington!) and you can still drive with the sun roof open and the windows all rolled down. And the radio up too loud. But that goes without saying. We're still holding on to the summer weather.
Maybe there is something to that poem...
"O suns and skies and clouds of June
And flowers of June together.
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather."
Yesterday, while I was driving home, I was thinking about how differently adult bloggers and kid bloggers interact. If you go to just about any kid blog, you'll see tons of comments on each post, most of them having nothing to do with the post subject. Adult blog posts usually have comments related directly to what the post says, unless the author has commented back to the person.
I think that kids tend to 'visit back' more than adults. Which means this: If you comment on my post, I will go to your blog and comment back to you in one of your posts.
Adults follow up with comments in their own posts and maybe never visit their guest commenter. Probably because they're too busy.
I comment back on my commenter's blog, because I don't generally expect my guest to return to see it, especially back when I was posting every day and a reply might get lost. Which one of these do you usually do? Both? Something else? |
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Oct. 18, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Except on my Circle C blog, where I'll answer questions ON that blog to questions asked that are in the general interest (Ask Andi), I always answer questions individually on the asker's blog. I can't imagine anyone returning.
And yes, I've noticed (since I comment on LOTS of kids' blogs, being able to hide my real age and hop about still being 12...he-he) that kids do like to "talk" to each other, and that is a grand social network.
I've noticed that the way adult bloggers "chat" is with those handy little c-boxes rather than comments.