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Why do you join a Neighborhood?

Posted by netbobz • 7/11/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: discussion, neighborhood

Everybody is busy joining neighborhoods. Lets discuss and find out the points, people consider while joining a neighborhood. So, come up with your honest confessions.

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7/11/07

alexhar

I guess its to identify people with my same interests. Is that rights? I am not sure. So far I have not got much out of it...though I am not sure what I should expect

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7/11/07

ianternet

I join because I want to visit their blog again later in the future - since I think their blog might be worth visiting

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1. 8/24/07
  
  ender
  
  yep, that's my criteria too.
7/11/07

careysaysums

Alexhar, that's cool. Connected with like-minded blogs is great. Also, it's just good-old-fashioned visibility for our blogs that's appealing.

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1. 7/12/07
  
  alexhar
  
  Yes like-mindedness is probably the objective of "neighbourhoods" ...however not everyone respects this rule.
7/11/07

identikit

its not very clear to me how i am at the top 3. i didnt do anything and i join only 30 compare to the top 2 that have 300 and more
join this www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/get-lots-of-trafficcomments-to-your-blog

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7/11/07

frenchkys

Basically, I join neighborhoods that I find interesting enough to revisit. Similar interests is a bonus, but all in all I just like their stuff enough to be associated with them.

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1. 7/12/07
  
  alexhar
  
  lezepha responded to me that neighbourhoods include people that are "like-minded. I guess if you like asite and want to return to it, there must be some thoughts and feekings you share with the author.
  
  That's not a bad reason. It become like whyen you search AMAZON and they tell you books that other people who have searched you item also searched.
7/12/07

netbobz

Thanks for your confessions. But there should be one main reason that no one has said! Don't you also join because a Neighborhood gets too many visitors?

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7/12/07

bnsullivan

I use it simply to 'bookmark' blogs I want to return to regularly.

Why is this different than just subscribing to their feeds, you may ask. (LOL). I do subscribe to the feeds of those I'd likely visit more or less daily. Other blogs I visit less frequently, and those are the ones whose neighborhoods I'll join, even if I don't subscribe to their feeds, too. (Hope that makes sense.)

I don't join neighborhoods just because they seem to be popular. I only join those that interest me specifically for one reason or another.

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7/12/07

AthenasArmoury

OK, maybe a silly question, but: why would you join someone's neighborhood as opposed to marking someone as a friend?

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1. 7/12/07
  
  bnsullivan
  
  Not a silly question at all. It does seem redundant, doesn't it? When I join someone's neighborhood, I always add them as a friend. But I don't always join all of the neighborhoods of people I add as friends. In other words, if people have multiple blogs I may or may not be interested to join the neighborhoods of more than one -- but if I join any at all, I make them a friend.
7/12/07

ahynes1

I wrote a blog post on the broader aspect of this earlier today:

Why are you reading this blog entry?
www.orient-lodge.com/node/2372

I explore a little bit about how and why people explore different communities (in MyBlogLog) or neighborhoods here. I would love it if some of you stopped by, read my post and added your own thoughts.

Aldon

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7/12/07

PrettyLady

I'm the Top Neighborhood and I'm still wondering how that happened. I join neighborhoods of the blogs I visit.

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1. 7/12/07
  
  alexhar
  
  Yoyu do have a a great site with very "human content". Pretty lady is an attractive name and is supported by the photo. Hate to bring up this sexist comment...but I find that sites with a pretty feamil photo generally gets good ratings/votes.
7/12/07

blogcabins

If someone joins mine, I will more than likely join theirs, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in the subject. It's common courtesy and I don't think it hurts anything. Additionally, I will join those of people/blogs that I find interesting, regardless of the topic. The same goes for friends.

In the end, I don't come here for the "Friends" or the "Neighborhoods" and find them to be used more for popularity purposes than anything else (no offense if you disagree). If there's a site I wish to read daily, I'll either bookmark it or link to it from my blog and check it that way, so that the author knows where the hit is coming from.

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1. 7/13/07
  
  netbobz
  
  blogcabins, I believe, you have got true substance in your confession!
2. 7/13/07
  
  blogcabins
  
  I feel no shame. There are countless people here that have hundreds upon hundreds of friends and hundreds of "neighbors." I'm sure they just go around making friends and neighbors with anyone they see in an attempt to boost their visibility. Meh. If they come to me with a request, so be it, but I'm not going to search every living soul out.
7/12/07

suray

Because I appreciate it! To emphasize that its blog is exists.

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8/24/07

netbobz

Any other reasons? Come on guys don't be shy and conceal the truth!

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8/24/07

Cryton

I just find myself in a very very big neighbourhood because people keep telling me that they have joined my neighboorhood and I reply saying "Thank you very much for joining my neighbourhood." Honestly I don't know why people join my neighbourhood though I like it. You are welcome to join my neighbourhood and I will reply by saying "Thanks for joining my hood."

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1. 8/26/07
  
  netbobz
  
  Well said!
8/24/07

Cryton

Its me again. Just thought of late that people join neighbourhoods to easily spam many people with Broadcasts;) What do you think?

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8/26/07

Fartmachine

I accidentally slipped and clicked.

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1. 8/26/07
  
  monkeytale
  
  lol...Now it doesn't get much more honest than that.