The odd question of the day for this Sunday evening is a simple one: do you ever find yourself wondering who the people are that appear and disappear from your followers list and\/or feedburner subscribers? I know I do. It seems that at random times people disappear from the followers panel. In most cases, I have no clue who just dropped out. It seems that blogger ought to have log that the blog owner could consult to see who arrived and who left in a given time span for the follow list and the feed list. <\/p>\n
Why you might ask? Well, I am one of those people that believes that if someone follows me, I should follow them if there is any easy way to do so on their blog. So it is really convenient to know who just signed on as a follower and especially which of the myriad of blogs listed in their profile is the one I should follow for maximum return on my reading time. (Admittedly, I can usually get a clue by looking at the last published dates on each of their blogs, but sometimes even that fails.)<\/i> I can usually muddle through with the current information on this side of the follow issue, so I can’t get too wound up about it.<\/p>\n
But, and it is a big but, I have no idea who it was when someone stops following or drops the feed. And that is irksome to me for two reasons: 1) I don’t know who to un-follow. {*grin*}<\/i> and 2) I don’t know if it was a long time reader who might have important words for me about why they exited (versus a fly-by follower that came on a whim and left the same way)<\/i>. It’s not like this is a mega-blog with 500 followers. This is a small comfy blog that I as the author feel some connection with most of the readers. So when I notice that someone has headed off, I wonder who and why. Especially when in one case I know it was the same person following and then un-following every other day. That kind of pattern often makes me think that someone is doing a classroom experiment for a social studies class. {*grin\/2*}<\/i><\/p>\n
So I will leave you with two questions. Do you notice the follow and feed fluctuations on your blog? Or do you blithely ignore them? Inquiring minds want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The odd question of the day for this Sunday evening is a simple one: do you ever find yourself wondering who the people are that appear and disappear from your followers list and\/or feedburner subscribers? I know I do. It seems that at random times people disappear from the followers panel. In most cases, I … Continue reading Odd Question of the Day<\/span>