Comments on: Social Networks: Friends and Blogroll Additions

By: timethief

timethief — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:19:17 +0000

@Tony You're welcome. I admit that I am giving careful consideration to yet another approach which is the one that Robin Easton has in place. She does not have a blogroll AKA Links page. What she does is provide a dedication section at the need of each of her posts with links back to the blogs that she reads. I think her idea has a lot of merit. To see what I mean you can click through to her blog Naked in Eden.

By: Tony Single

Tony Single — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:27:50 +0000

Thanks for directing me to this post, as it’s a subject that I’ve been giving a lot of thought. I often worry about not reciprocating a link if I truly don’t find a particular blog to my liking, and things like that. Understandably, people could get a little upset when you don’t reciprocate, so reading clear headed approach to it has been a great benefit to me. Thanks!

By: timethief

timethief — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:55:00 +0000

Suffice to say that I have stated my policy. I think this marking BC members as friends, joining their neighborhoods and placing them on our blorgroll is something that each blogger must work out to their own satisfaction. Best wishes to you. :)

By: mariamichelle

mariamichelle — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:10:11 +0000

I guess I’m still following the old saying “you can’t have too many friends” since I am new. I’ve already started thinking that I may just delete any e-mails from someone who adds me without even looking at my site. It’s still hard for me to tell who will end up being a “real friend”. However, I think I’m starting to figure it out. I’m probably going to start looking more at things like did they at least leave me a shout, comment, or peek at my post.

By: timethief

timethief — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:44:56 +0000

@Lana
Thanks for your comment. Although there are some variations, it seems that most of us have a very similar approach when it comes to adding friends in social networks and, that the most common approach is built on the foundations that we have for making friends in our everyday lives ie. common ground. Best wishes for happy blogging.

By: Lana Gramlich

Lana Gramlich — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:12:21 +0000

I agree with your thinking on adding a site to your blogroll. As for “friends” at BC, that exercise seems rather pointless. Although I have some friends there that I’d known before I joined BC, most of the rest (like I mentioned in a BC post,) are just people who add me as their friend. So long as they don’t start spamming me, I’ll leave them on my list. I think the number of one’s BC “friends” has some effect on blog ranking there, which is why everyone just tries to add everyone else.