Blogging 101, Commenting Bootcamp, Day Two, Share a Personal Story

Blogging and commenting are about connecting. We connect with one another through stories.

Today, leave a comment in which you share a personal story about yourself.

When you tell a personal story, you show the original blogger a few things. First, that their post resonated with someone — something every blogger strives for — and second, that you’re ready to open up and engage in real conversation.

Share a personal story in a comment — something relevant to the original post.

Again, we encourage you to leave this comment on a blog where you’ve never engaged before. This just might be the start of a beautiful friendship!

“I plead the fifth”

Blogging 101, Commenting Bootcamp, Day Two, Share a Personal Story

For today’s assignment, I must “plead the fifth”.

Call it personality, call it national heritage (Finnish inherited personality), promoting myself shamelessly while enjoying someone else’s product is something which is not in my nature to do. If there is a funny anecdote to be shared, then that is fine, when the situation demands it. I have even written a comment in a poem to one of my favourite blogs, but sharing something truly personal on someone else’s blog, is really not me. Of course there are always exceptions to any rule.

What prompted this?

Definite “no-nos” from real life, which I have received as comments on my posts:

“Excellent story and colourful pics: now come and see my site…”
“Rant, rant, why I hate religion, rant, rant, nothing to do with your post, continued rant”
“I really don’t like black and white photographs”

I like to follow my dear departed Grandmother’s motto “If you haven’t gotten anything nice or constructive to say, shut the hell up!”

Keep calm and keep blogging, and commenting all!