First Contact

How often do you find strangers approaching you?

"Hi sir, do you have a minute? Just 3 questions only..."

Sadly, spam messages don't sound as sweet as these marketing girls. But they're most likely the first contact you have with the outer blogosphere. Then comes those who bangs your shoulder on the street.

"I've read you blog & it's interesting. However, you look ugly in those self-portraits."

Signed, anonymous. How easy it is to satisfy one's ego-boosting. Just like territory-marking graffiti & other nitty-picky pranks of the delinquent teenage heart.

Basically, that's just about all the comments you'll receive from strangers in the blogosphere. At least in the starting part. There is an exception though, if your blog is much less personal & more interest-based. One of the most common interests online would be photography. Then you would receive more constructive observations.

Which brings me to ask, if our blogs are of a personal basis rather than an interest-based log, why are we allowing the "Public" to read it? We can always password-protect our blogs. Do you ever read a stranger's blog anyway? The furthest degree of seperation may be that of your forum mates or your friend's friend, or some blogging personalities.

For now, I'm sure my blog is still on the other edge of the universe, far away from space junk & other strong gravitational fields that could distort my ways. So any hitchhiker is welcome to pop by.