Where is the conversation?

Blogging and social media in general, is about the conversation. You post, others read and a few comment. Sometimes readers will discuss (or fight) about the topic. However, most of the time I see the author just speaking his mind and “talking”. Maybe the author is busy or he just is not arose intellectually by the comments to even bother. We are irrational beings so its a challenge to guess what is going through the mind of the authors and why they don’t comment much. However is ironic that people say that blogging is about he conversation, when authors are shouting. Its more like:

hellooooooooooooo!!!! I’m here..!! now that you know I exist, read this!!!! anybody please read it!!!!

You might think that is the case of G to The Square, since I don’t have much readers in my blog. However, in my defense, any comment I get a reply, although people don’t reply back, still its a “three way handshake“. I post, somebody comments and I comment back (see image bellow).

Three way handshake of conversation in blogs (too much net stuff in my mind )

Then again what is a conversation? Based on the Merriam-Webster dictionary a conversation is defined as:

oral exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas

In the Internet there is no oral exchange as traditional conversation, instead we have written words as a medium on exchanging our sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas. Apparently this exchange happens in less, traditional and immediate ways. Authors post their ideas and after some minutes, hours or days, readers who may be loyal, syndicated, occasional visitor or “stumbler” (thanks to a search engine, post a comment). When the comments hit the right tone then the conversation start. What I mean the by right tone? Conversation is not simply agreeing with the author or telling her that she is pretty, but actually expressing our:

sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas

And there is where the conversation is, in the comments: where there is substance, where at full throttle readers express their mind in a attempt to prove a point or simply to take a stand. On the other side of the coin, the author is just simply expressing himself, because he doesn’t reply to the comments just fills his pocket with the “ad money” and his ego offcoarse. And to those that really reply to their readers.. then I salute you, for honoring the essence of blogging: the conversation.