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   6/23/07

   MadameX

   My best advice would be to talk about things other than what's on your blog. I've visited your blog a few times and, although it's quite a departure from my usual reading/writing, I have found it entertaining and will probably go back. But in the discussion forums, I haven't seen you post about anything except your blog contents. I don't read every thread, and please accept my apologies if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that everything you've posted has been geared toward getting people to visit your blog--and it's been effective, it seems. But if you want to make friends...well...talk to us.

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   6/23/07

   terencechang

   Most of the bloggers here are friendly and never ask for a friend. We add the person as a friend to show them we like them. We don't add people as friend doesn't mean we don't like them.
   
   I believe if you contribute more to the nice community and help others, people will add your as friend. The reality is that you don't have to be on someone's friend list to be friend.
   
   Personally, I think the avatar image make a good first impression. I will prefer to see are real persona instead of some artificial art. ;-)
   
   We all learned from each other regardless good or bad.

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   6/26/07

   Techsplorer

   I'm very newish to BlogCatalog, only on for a few days actually, but I'd like to talk a little bit about befriending (so to speak).
   
   The way I look at it, if someone adds me as a friend I take it they must like something about my blog. Always on the lookout for like-minded individuals to befriend myself, I'll go take a look at their blog (more traffic for them right there) and see just how like-minded we are.
   
   Very often, but not always, I find we share enough interests that I add them as friends (and any of their blogs I like I join their neighborhoods).
   
   Admittedly, when I find that I am not as hot for their blog as they are for mine, I don't join their neighborhood and hope they don't take it personally that it isn't something I feel like joining.
   
   I suspect, perhaps falsely, that this kind of reciprocity is fairly common here.
   
   As for finding friends on my own, what I'll usually do right now is go to BlogCatalog's main page and see who's been on recently and check out some profiles & blogs for those folks who aren't currently my friends. I might even click on the avatars of some of their friends in the same manner.
   
   If I like what I see it only takes a click to add them (as you obviously know). An alternative to this approach, which (surprisingly to me) is not particularly often yet, is to browse blogs by category (obviously I find "Books" is a popular category).
   
   One more alternative (one I haven't employed yet, since this is the first time I've pulled myself away from "befriending" to check out the discussions) is one you can do when reading discussions: when you find an opinion you can relate to, click on the avatar poster of that opinion and check out their profile/blog(s).
   
   Now a general question, simply out of curiosity, for the community at large: When you check out a profile, do you pay attention to who this blogger has friends and what neighborhoods the blogger belongs to? Do you form opinions about the blogger based on these things if you do?

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      6/26/07

      healthiacynthia

      Hi... very insightful comments. I am new to this Blog Catalog stuff (think I signed up quite a while back but didn't make it into the community until this past week) and I'm in a bit of a fog trying to sort out if I have to do technical stuff to get people onto my Neighborhood widgets or if I just push a button and they automatically appear (maybe not that stupid, but close). I am dazed by all the great blogs out there, and feeling a little old and out of the loop, to be frank... but I will give my head a good shake over that negative and maybe do some EFT to clear it for good(heheh, one of my blogs). In the meantime, it is fun to explore the community of possible friends and neighbors.
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   6/26/07

   Lozster

   I spend a lot of time reading my friends blogs and I will nearly always click on the avatars of people who have visited their blogs and browse. If I see something I like I will add it to my list of must reads and I'll generally put a link to their blogs on mine. If people are good enough to leave a comment on one of my posts I will try and reply and make sure I do the same for them, not out of obligation but because I also care enough about what they have posted to warrant a reply.

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5. 

   6/27/07

   husla3x

   Thanks guys for the input. I guess i spend so much time writing and promoting that i forget to stop and smell the bus exhaust. Judging by these few messages i think i am going to like this joint. thanks again guys

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