The Blog List

There's a lot of annoying etiquette involved with blogging. Because people don't want to seem petty and needy they don't talk about it, but it's there, alright. Just lurking beneath the surface.

That was a good post.. so where are the comments? Where are the links to this bit of awesomeness? I commented on your post, why have you not replied?

I know your shrugging and smirking, saying oh, I don't think that way. Come on, friend. Look deep inside. Look at the turmoil that quietly bubbles away.

Anyhow, a bit of blog dynamite waiting to blow is the "Blogs I Read" list. I recognised the volatility of this list early on and wisely steered clear. It sounds fun to start with, but where does the list stop? Someone puts you on their list, so are you then obligated to reciprocate? You have a friend who posts about four times a decade - are you obligated by friendship to add them to your list?

The pitfalls are many, and best to be avoided. It's all fun and games until some poor soul looks down that list with expectancy, and comes away with a small fissure developing on their sensitive heart*.

However, brashly, and perhaps foolishly I added this list to my blog just now. Out of boredom, and not wanting to start work yet. It started off okay, but quickly turned stressful. Where do you draw that line? How do you find the strength to refrain from adding that blog you looked at once in 1982?

Anyhow, I will give it a test run. That's the kind of courage I have been known to show in the face of such adversity. You might say I am neurotic, thinking so much about something so trivial. But if you look down that list and either feel a tinge of joy at seeing your world-famous blog on someone's list, or feel a bit chizzy at being ommitted, well, you will know that I speak the truth.

*DISCLAIMER- The author has never once worried about such things, and has never ever cared what anybody thought of him. He is above such trivialities, and is very confident and self-assured. Some might even consider him to be a rock.