I loved what Matt over at The Book Blogger had to say on his first anniversary post about how we look at blogging. I couldn’t have said it better myself! Thought I’d post it here for those folks who get discouraged because people aren’t pushing their follow button. Matt says it all! ❤
Friends are the most important things you will ever have. By Some dude on Flickr [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons Doesn’t time fly. On the second of November 2014 I signed up to WordPress on a whim, with the sole intention of reviewing a few books. I had no intention to become a part of one of the internet’s most kind and caring communities, no thought of making good friends. But that is what I have done. I’ve learnt about tags, images, books, interests, but I still think the most important thing I have learnt on here is that you can be good friends with someone you’ve never met.
Even if you go on a hiatus for days, weeks, months, blogging friends will still be around to welcome you back. I went away twice, once for GCSEs and once for the start of the school year, and my blogging…
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Great link and blog! Thank you. It came at just the right time. I haven’t been able to nurture my small blogging community the way I hoped to, nor do I have the time to read a lot of blogs (if you could see the pile of books I have set aside to read you’d understand why). I’ve come to the same conclusion; having three zillion followers is not the point. The readers you have and the friends you make are important. Like my mother used to say, it’s all about quality, not quantity.
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So true. But I am noticing that the circle DOES continue to enlarge a little bit at a time. I think Matt has a couple new followers who happened to read his post on here. I have to believe that we’re all drawn to each other for a reason. That’s more important to me because I know those folks have something to teach me. (I’m getting ready to use one of your posts as a springboard for one of my own. 😀 )
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As Bill Adama said, “So say we all!” 🙂
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Thank you very much for the reblog Calen!
Best, Matt
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Thank YOU for the words of wisdom, Matt!
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Your book picture caught my eye. I don’t know where I would be without books. They teach us and take us to farway plact.
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And thank God they do or I’d be bored out of my mind!!! 😀 (And be a lot dumber!)
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Thanks for the link, Calen – I’m following him now. Looks very interesting.
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Matt does amazing reviews. I keep adding books to my wish list at Amazon because of him. LOL
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