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There could be several reasons you would want to interact with people outside of a blog. Following is a random list of 6 such reasons:

1. Make online friends
2. Make online contacts to help yourself or others with businesses or blogs
3. Make online contacts to learn about something
4. Make online contacts to help them convert to offline friends and contacts - my favorite
5. Make online friends to fulfill hobbies, like exchanging gifts
6. To promote a weird kind of drama, the one to get yourself headaches and stalkers - this is a personal classic of mine that is revisited more than once every year or so for almost 6 years. I’m hoping to avoid it beginning this year.

6 random ways to interact with people outside of blog comments area

There can also be several ways to interact with people outside of a blog commenting area, like the following 6 ways:

1. E-mails
2. Instant messages
3. Text messages
4. Online voice conferences
5. Online webcam conferences
6. Snail mail - more and more people are giving this up. I think I would never want to give this up

An example of interacting via Snail Mail with online people: Sidney from Bubbles SOC

A good example of this is Sidney from BubblesSoc; Sidney has a very nice habit of sending me amazing gifts in the mail from time to time, and I still have to send her a lot of things that I have not had the time to pack and mail, because of packing and mailing a lot of other stuff. She is very good at it; I want to be as good too. She knows how to build relationships and make good friends that way. Just because of this, I consider Sidney a very nice and considerate person and friend. Maybe I like her gifts a lot?

For another example of this, you can read how Ronald became friends with a few online people by interacting with them for different reasons and through different levels. Ronald is a good friend of mine because of many reasons, including what he wrote in his post.

Do you build relations with others outside of a blog?

If I had not interacted with some people, and vice versa, outside of the blog comments on either my site or other sites, I would not know many of the wonderful and interesting friend that I know now. Similarly, had I refrained from interacting with certain people outside of the comments area, I would have saved myself from a lot of headache, a stabbing, and a few stalkers. Cute stalkers who hate knives and any harmful, physical objects are always welcome, though, I think.

So, do you like building relations with bloggers and commentors outside of a blog? Could the reasons you build such relations affect the level of relationship you can end up with?

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Blog Readers and Blog Commentors

• Active Blog Readers : Blog visitors who usually read more than they comment.
• Active Blog Commentors : Blog visitors who usually comment more than they read.

Site visitors who comment and read a lot at the same time usually become either more active commentors or more active readers, since they notice bloggers appreciating their comments more than anything else. Why waste energy doing something on a blog when the blog owner is only looking for more comments, right?

Active commentors are being chosen over active readers

The blogosphere is taking a turn where more and more bloggers are slowly starting to focus on earning money, even if there is no product to sell. Such bloggers are forcing themselves to come up with some kind of a product or writing in order to make money. Top and active commentors on such blogs are usually rewarded, since more comments usually mean more money for blogs. At the same time, top and active readers are unappreciated and left behind on such blogs.

Sure, a blogger cannot communicate via a comment with a reader who does not comment, but are blogs only supposed to interact with those who comment, or are blogs and bloggers supposed to interact with everyone who visits the blog?

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