Bloggy foggy logic

This my friends is my 76th post. Post frequency averages to weekly since the last few months and followers - wow 3 (thank you big time folks!!). Some posts don't strike a chord with the readers, hence there are no comments. No, I don't feel down and out, look at it as an area of improvement. Think language, think subject, treatment, word craft, humour perhaps............and also blog-socializing or netblogworking or blogsmalltalking - attempting humour here ;-)

I missed making a bit of a hue and cry with my 75th post (ach! my poor social media skills), so now crawling silently to the 100th. I  suspect my offline personality accompanies me on blogosphere. I'm the kind of person who on entering a crowded room or a party in full swing, will never attempt to break in to a group of people in earnest conversation.  I'd stand on the fringes and listen in or seek another silent or single persona and attempt small talk. If I have to have to make a point, I will do it in an awkward and self-conscious manner. Certainly not in-your-face, controversial-but-here's-my-point, or slap-your-back-and-laugh, well articulated way.

I see the same set of people commenting on same set of blogs. A bloggers clique, mutual admiration club, encouragement sets, let's call them. Some of them also seem to interact off the blog - exchange mails and dms offline, phone calls, etc. There are established and the newbies (me!!) opinion generators and supporters, leaders and followers, critics and devil's advocate, acceptors and simply posting types (me!!) Then I see a couple of new bloggers patiently and with determined perseverance  commenting on every single post by a 'pro-blogger', never mind if the post is interesting enough or not, just the need to engage, want to be in-the-circle or whatever, ...... And one fine day, some kind hearted soul from the coterie hops over to the newbie's blog and comments and then the rest of the blog clique starts buzzing there. Yet to happen to me, yet.

Am assuming it may take time or never happen, either is fine. It's the time and effort too, which is pretty mind-boggling to reach that break-even point to invite commentators. I  never used to comment on random blogs I read, though changing that off late. I don't believe in being a compulsory commentator either. But surely, if I comment on someone's blog ought they not to visit mine once, simple plain curiosity. Not for the I-scratch you-scratch funda, just blog courtesy I guess. Hmmph, at least for the name chatty wren......

Another option is of course to join new blogs and just forming blog-cliques. My blog is pretty old though I've started blogging frequently only this year. And given my small-talk skills, I seem to have missed that boat too and I am too new for the new groups already formed. Strike that off! Even listed myself at indiblogger and blogadda, but now have forgotten my passwords, so not explored those platforms either. Thought about giving awards or somelike but then thought the giving party should've established some credibility in terms of posts, followers, comments, etc.

One could argue that all this will not matter if you have great catchy content. Aha, caught you! Content is the King, Queen and Master of your blog. Get that. See, this started off as a mommy blog, and content was highly personal, not frequently updated.   In fact, at one point of time, I actually thought I could use this space as my random online diary, such was the dearth of visitors here. Only, with my first follower onwards, I became well... ambitious....And tell me, what use is ambition if not backed by talent, and also in this case content. Regular, varied, informative, humorous, scandalous, BIZARRE, opinionated, topical, what have you.

Which also makes me question why am I blogging, what do I want from it? A record of my thoughts, life happenings, an outlet, now also an interaction with virtual strangers.....information sharing, etc. Nothing more, nothing less. And I go the Gita way, do my bit to the best and not worry about the results or in this case comments/followers, etc.

Passers by, if you like something, do speak up. I am off an age where I can speak to random strangers.