anybody out there?

[ragani]

I can probably blame some of how I feel on PMS or something, but I have been feeling rather delicate lately. So, the fact that no one seems to have anything to say to me (in my own posts) here in LJ land is adding to my feelings of being disconnected from people. Especially when some of the posts had specific questions with requests to respond.

Maybe I should post a silly poll or something.

Sigh...

Comments

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

Many days late (as I wasn't reading your journal at the time, but am back-skimming tonight), but I know exactly how you feel/felt. My blog's offsite, and while the hit counter proves that a surprising number of people read it, very few folks tend to comment. This really bothered me for quite awhile until I decided my journal was for me, dammnit, and I didn't need validatation, but I still feel, well, delicate sometimes, and want the love.

So retroactively, I'm here (now) and reading! And have found your most recent posts really interesting (which perhaps means I should comment directly on them), too. ^_^

[ragani.livejournal.com]

Well, thank you Angie, and welcome. When I started an LJ account, I had already made some decisions about my journal being for me, but the fact that I was trying to get responses about specific plans and was hearing nothing was what triggered this post. That, and the aforementioned PMS.

One of the plans in question feel through because the people who had responded forgot they had said yes in the first place (which is what triggered the later rant about making plans). It all worked out in the end, as it tends to (although neither of those friends made it), but I think I will only use LJ to announce, and not as my primary way to organize an event. Lesson learned.

I have come to notice that certain types of posts get more comments than others, and that there is an art to writing with getting comments in mind. I do not always write with that in mind for the very reason that it is not always about comments because my journal is for me. There are some posts I am surprised to get comments, and others I am surprised do not (like the ones I have asked a direct question or asked for input).