If you are of a certain age, ahem… you will remember party lines. That’s when more then one house shared the same telephone line. There was a distinctive ring for each house, but anyone connected could listen in. What I love about blogging is the comments and how they just kind of flow back and forth between the blogger, the reader, and that sometimes other readers add to the thread. To me it’s kind of like having a old fashioned party line, but everyone’s invited to listen in.
But if you have your comments emailed to you as a blogger then you can become easily confused when the thread takes a jump.
Let’s say you are blogging about the garden, and a certain flower, but yesterday you mentioned a party that you held. Although it does tell you which blog post the comment was made on, sometimes in the back and forth things get mixed up, and you forget whom you are talking to and about what.
Reader 1, great decorations, love the pink Blogger, thanks got it at the dollar store Reader 2, which variety is it? Blogger, the local one just down the street Reader 3, love the pink Blogger, oh thanks I like the pink tablecloth too Reader 3, I meant the flower Blogger, but I didn’t get them at the dollar store Reader 2, which variety is that? Blogger, the tablecloth, or the flower? I'm no longer sure…
So if you get weird replies from me regarding something that has nothing to do with the blog post, now you know why.