I should admit to being a lazy journaler. Lazy? No, that's perhaps not right. Selective. Yesterday, I went to bed with 47 alerts still to be read. Woke up to 106 by the time I had gone through the lot. Only a few comments added alerts, but I'm fine with that. Comments are optional. Which is also the way I comment myself.
I have about 100 journals on alert, perhaps fewer. Average number of alerts each day about 50. There are a number of journals I have on what could be called Red Alert. Those I flag up under my subject heading "Call for support". People with difficult circumstances, whether it be personal, material or immaterial. Others I read because they go to the bother of commenting in my journal, which is the modus operandi for J-land. Although I do not always comment, I would like to think I read the entries.
I also have a number of journals on alert where the writers only make very occasional entries. Nonetheless, I keep the alerts open because in a way, they also count as Red Alerts.
Every now and again, I hop along to my favourites on Technorati, and check what is happening. Sometimes, that alerts me to a deleted journal. Always sad to find that, but an email usually clarifies the situation.
A summary of how I operate in J-land. Think I'll highlight this in blogplugs.
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I try to comment on all alerts but it's tough going when you're at work for nearly nine hours a day. Some, like you do multiple entries each day and I do try to read them all but only comment on a few else I'd lose all my beauty sleep! Lol! After reading I don't have time to do an entry so I only post a couple of times a week. I've got around 100 on alert too. Have a good week! Jeannette xx http://journals.aol.co.uk/jlocorriere05/Welcometomytravels/
ReplyDeleteI keep quiet a few on alert. I read every alert. If it is of interest to me, I go and read the whole entry. Try very hard to leave comments. Occasionally I have gotten so far behind I had no choice but to just overlook the old ones and use the archives if I got to a new post where I needed previous info. I never have turned off an alert for a journal. Once it is there, I keep it. But I have thought I ought to go and tidy up the ones that I know don't exist. I must confess if I know an entry is all about a video, I seldom bother to even go as I know I have not the patience to try to watch them on my old pc and dial-up. Takes forever and then it's still so choppy you can scarcely tell what it is saying. One day,maybe, I'll be up to speed. ;o) - Barbara
ReplyDeleteyou know, i never comment in your journal but i read it every time you update. I dont honestly know how to put this, but it is like your journal is the heart of J Land for me. I know all is well if Guido has updated. That may sound dumb. I have lost alot of "friends" here so my count is down on who i read but i find that is ok...better to have quality instead of quantity, right?! HUGS, lisa jo
ReplyDeleteI also have alot of alerts coming through ,and try to aswer them before I add my own entry ,only sometimes I have run out of time and dont get to do the entry ,alerts are bit like painting the Forth Bridge ....lol dont cha think ? love Jan xx
ReplyDeleteI don't have quite 100 alerts....but there are a LOT!! Enough so that it takes me about 2-3hrs if I go through them all. I'm finding that I read more than I comment on. There are a few that I read that the author knows nothing of my "lurking." But you, dear Guido, have to put up with my comments every now and again.
ReplyDeleteHope you have a good night.
Pam
Hey Guido.......I still have 229 e-mails over here. I went through some alerts earlier today...only to come online and find some more alerts...LOL!!! I will be busy over the next few days. I don't always comment on *every* journal I read. If I did that I'd be on the computer for like 4 hours straight. Oh wait....I do that already sometimes, LOL!!! AOL and J-Land are my lifelines....they get on my nerves sometimes......but I can't live with out them. (connectivity issues w/ AOL and problems w/ updating journals or adding entries)
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Gina
I don't always comment on every Alert I get either. My wit only comes in spurts. LOL
ReplyDelete~Amy
I notice that sometimes you comment a lot for a while... then back off... then comment again!... No worries!
ReplyDeletebe well,
Dawn
http://journals.aol.com/princesssaurora/CarpeDiem/
Il neige dans le Sud (!!!?)
ReplyDeleteValerie
http://journals.aol.co.uk/iiimagicxx/surreality/
Well..some of you will know me by now. I am unable to be succinct. I can't help commenting on how I have been affected by what the journaler has written when I pop in to see them. More often than not the Muse sets me off on a "I remember when". I could kill her at times like that as she runs away with MY TIME...Lol! I too read more journals than I comment on. There just isn't enough time in the day. There is a life outside cyber space. ............ Isn't there? Lol! Jeanie
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ReplyDeleteMy experience is somewhat much the same as yours. If I take the time to read all my alerts, I have little time for comments. If I take the time to comment in all the posts I read, I don't come even close to getting through them each day. As you say, comments are optional and time and schedule dictate when I chose to leave them.
Sam
I guess I'm the odd ball. I have a routine I do. I read all the entry's I have, and leave a comment. If I didn't leave a comment, then I didn't get the alert.
ReplyDeleteLisa
http://journals.aol.com/seraphoflove9001/Pleasedonttakelifeforgranted/
P.S. sorry for being so different.
Guido
ReplyDeleteI'm glad for this entry! I always feel so guilty when I don't leave a comment but time IS a problem! I love your journal-read it OFTEN but ashamedly admit seldom leave comments but now I know you do the same -I'm relieved:-)Take care- Shauneen
Ahh the concept of commenting on journals.....Me? I tend to try to comment as time permits. I do make sure to swing by all those who comment in my own journal. Something that is becoming slightly harder the more readers I end up with. But the way I look at it is, it's a two way street. We support one another when we comment on journals of our own readers. (Hugs) Indigo
ReplyDeleteI don't comment a lot, but every once in a while I like to pop in and say hi. Usually shocks people who thought I never read them.
ReplyDeleteOr not.
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
Well, at least you get alerts, mine are not working.
ReplyDeleteI just got a few now, but they weren't working since last night.
~Marie
http://journals.aol.co.uk/mariebm56/PhotographsMemoriestoo/