I read something a while back, a post somewhere,

that basically said that commenting on blogs was dead.

At the time, I thought that couldn’t be right.

Lately though, I have seen a change.

I love comments as much as any blogger but I have definitely noticed a decline.

Perhaps it’s just my blog, my content.

Perhaps it’s because there are millions of blogs out there now. A huge choice, where once, there seemed to be only a few of us.

Especially in Australia.

Maybe it’s because I am limited in returning the comment love, for now.

Perhaps it’s because I am not interested in promoting myself as much as the next person.

Who knows.

It’s okay.

I generally don’t blog for the comments, although I do like the network

and the support I find when I receive them.

As a person who lives in an isolated area, with a sick child and limited resources,

the internet and, in particular, the blogging community have saved my sanity on more than one occasion

and I will be forever grateful for the opportunity that presented itself as a little blogging platform almost four years ago

but what do you think?

Do you think that commenting on blogs has declined?

As an old blogger (and I do consider myself to be one of the older ones), I often feel left behind with all of the new things going on.

Blogging has taken off in our country of late and there are people offering products and trips, excursions, in return for promotion

there are even the odd conventions starting to spring up.

I seriously cannot keep up.

I want to but I know that I can’t.

Which brings me to my next quandry.

When do you call Uncle?

When do you know it’s time to shut up shop?

Is it when you run out of things to say?

Perhaps  when you start to bore your own self so much that you can’t stand to type one more word

or like one blogger, who had one too many trolls.

Just walk away.

Sometimes, now, I wonder if I should bother,

I second guess myself, worry about content, crave feedback  -

I didn’t start blogging so I could stress more

but then I’ll get an amazing comment or an email

and I feel inspired and humbled

and I think of all of the times I’ve been helped, in more ways than one, by all of you out there

and I feel bad and selfish.

It’s said that you should just blog for yourself and not for your audience

and maybe that’s true

but what if your audience are your solace, what if they are almost like your family?

How do you walk away from that?

*Disclaimer: I’m not giving up blogging right now. These are just some things I have been pondering.