I guess this is something of a follow up to my Social Networking post, in which I mentioned how I tend to mostly lurk around the internet. I notice the blogging community is something of a circle. Or an ellipse. Whatever. Everyone knows everyone and they all leave comments for each other at their own blogs. So why don’t I be more social and leave comments at other blogs to expand my circle? Being quiet has always been a major part of my temperament and it’s hard to change your ways after you’re set in them.

I’m just not inclined to leave comments at big blogs. I enjoy reading all the different comments but don’t have anything valuable to contribute to the conversation most of the time. On that note, I prefer to leave comments at small blogs when I do decide to say something. Big blogs with several commentators remind me too much of message boards, which I’ve all but left behind. The whole aspect of message board and IRC communities never appealed to me very much. To me it feels like getting suffocated in a crowd of uniformity. That’s not to say the big forums and IRC are bad. They just feel very constraining. You may see me around on these mediums every now and then. I probably won’t say anything though.

I like blogging because of the individuality it affords. I like seeing all the different themes and writing styles out there. Was this personal post about anything or was it just another of my mini rants? If Wolf Hurricane starts to regularly get 20 comments per post, will I stop commenting back…? I’ll still comment back, because I love getting feedback. Your comments are my blogger Prozac after all.

Lina and company have managed to catch up with Pokota and have given chase yet again. Pokota is particularly annoyed and wants to get them off his tail today of all days. Pokota gives them all the slip and while they try to decide what to do, they are quickly surrounded by a deep mist as Pokota curses his luck.

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