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I did something today I don’t recall having done before – I decided to stop reading a certain blog.

I’ve been regularly reading this blog for some time; I tried to leave comments on a regular basis. He has never visited my blog (so far as I can tell); and he hasn’t acknowledged my dropping by. So, I figured it wasn’t worth the time to keep dropping by his. I have enough old and new blogs to read. 

For reasons I can’t quite figure out, this bugs me.

Perhaps it is as simple as feeling not wanted. Perhaps it is because it felt iniquitous. When people drop by my own, I try at least to say thank you for stopping by. And I try to reciprocate visitors by dropping by their blogs. Sometimes this doesn’t blossom into an ongoing blogging relationship. But at least it the correspondence was a ‘two way street’ for a short time. I continue to read a few blogs who seldom if ever drop by mine or left comment. A few have never dropped by. Yet, I enjoy reading their blogs. But at least these ‘one way’ bloggers from time to time  -

a) know I am there

b) say ‘thanks for dropping by’.

c) sometimes include me in the blog link. 

I suppose this is about manners. I try to be polite and do ‘what is right’. But there are no rules in blog-land, are there? I don’t think blogging has a Miss Manners equivalent to find out proper etiquette towards virtual visitors.

It is rather fascinating, no?  

Do you bother ‘keeping track’ to who is visiting or commenting?