Good Morning campers!!
I never thought I would say this but I miss AOL's J Land....while I appreciate that we have Bloggerville to keep in touch with each other it just isn't the same...I spend so much time tracking down posts....and yes I have google reader.. and yes I use the dashboard.. and yes I ask people to send me alerts etc etc but lets face it nothing will ever compare to the ease of good old J Land alerts pinging in the mailbox every few minutes!! the whole follower thing bugs me too because before I didn't know how many people knew about my blog now that I know that I have 162 followers it bugs me that only about 20 of them bother to comment!! I bet it's because they don't know I've posted just like I don't know they have!! And yes I send alerts out to the 10 measly people blogger allows...other than sending a mass email whenever I post..which would be difficult because I know I don't have all 162 of my followers e mail addresses..what else can I do??...
And another thing....2 of my favourite bloggers quit their blogs in the past couple of weeks and that just plain saddens me....I will miss reading them more than they will ever know....it's like when one of your favourite TV shows ends.... and I can't even catch the re-runs... :-(
My BFF is not my BFF anymore and I am still hurting from that and shaking my head an wondering WTF??
Gaz has the blues and I love him and miss his hilarious postings.... cheer up Gaz...that's an order from yer missus!! ;-)
Just wanted to get these feelings of mine down in writing....been meaning to for a couple of days but life got in the way...I just worked two long arse shifts at the clinic but have the next 5 days off to recuperate...;-) Don't hate me...
I feel better..venting is a good thing.... ;-)
L xx
52 comments:
Comments are a nasty thing sometimes. You know in your head that it shouldn't matter how many you get but all your heart cares is how high that number goes. (says she who only has 18 followers LOL)
I have a hard time catching everyone's post too.
You know how I feel about all this. You know I have been hurt by someone that claimed to always be there for me. Blogger isnt the same. I am liking Facebook alot. I have my real friends there. Including you. I just might blog for a small group of people. so dont give up on me yet !
much love.
I hear you girlfriend. I feel the same way about Blogger. IT SUCKS. I still have my one blog and it's mostly for ME...although I admit, I look for the comments every day too! I have resorted to sending out the mass email to people who have asked to be alerted. It's a pain in the ass, but what the heck. I have made alot of really good friends in JLand and I want to keep in touch with them no matter what!
Sorry your two favorite bloggers have left. And your BFF? What's up with that? Is she also a blogger? I have always said that I never understood that "disappearing" thing. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't mean EVERYONE who reads my blog should keep in touch all the time. But if someone is TRULY my friend, then I don't expect them to just "vanish" out of my life...and then pop back months later saying "hi! I'm back!" like we are supposed to roll out the red carpet. I hope that those blog writers still include you in their lives in some way!
I love Facebook! It's way more fun than this blogger...BUT...I still need my blog...for that "personal" stuff!! (lol)
((hugs))
Jeanne
I'm sorry little missy! ITs really no fun when bad things start to happen... then its seems like they just keep happening!!
Try and keep your pretty head up and have confidence in the grand plan. If you are doing right and doing well, things will work out. Just go forth with love and grace and humility and let the love come back to you!
Many blessings-
Amanda
I know I shouldn't but I do miss certain people's comments when they don't comment and wonder what's up. I do miss aol journals. It was more comment and update friendly I think, but Lyn, I will always check your blog to see if you have posted. You are one of my favourites as is the silent Gaz . . . I hope he feels better soon. Don't like it when one of my loved ones is feeling blue.
Hey... I was just thinking how much you need to stop by my blog today!! I am doing a blog jubille and YOU NEED to particpiate!! I think it would do wonders and bring some much needed appreciation your way!
I do hope you'll stop by!
God bless-
Amanda
http://iammommy.typepad.com
I think the move to blogger didn't bother me as much because I had already been blogging here (as well as J-Land) for over a year, and had already made some new blogging friends here.
I always tell myself comments don't matter, but when I get a lot of them it sure perks me up, so go figure. Of course it helps that I have Sitemeter, so I can tell how many have actually visited my blog whether they commented or not. And on Google Reader I can see that 127 people follow me there.
So my poor ego gets stroked, one way or another.
Can you tell I'm an only child? ROFLOL
i feel the same way!
bloggerville is just not the same as good ole j-land, i know i miss lots of alerts!
huggies...
I always use my blog list to see when someone has added a new post. But I know what you mean. I miss the journals, can't get into facebook and miss the people who don't blog or journal anymore. I wonder daily why I still do it but I used to keep a daily handwritten journal and will probably still do it here. No one read my handwritten one either.
I like blogger and while all the people hat are "following" aren't commenting, that is okay. It is probably the private posts you are having trouble keeping up with, because they don't show on the dashboard. I do dislike that feature. otherwise, I like it.
vent away sister....hope it makes you feel better...I hear ya tho...
Lyn,
I have made no secret that I HATE blogger. I don't like the alert system and yes hate it with the privates too. I don't like that dashboard crap and I hate searching for people heck by the time I've done that I out of time to read. I'm like you and have 10 people on email alert that I'm allowed. Whoo Hoo doing us a favor on that one aren't they.
I too have a bunch of people that never comment, but the only reason I don't get rid of my blog is because I don't know where else to go.
I like FB, but that is not a place to journal. I know some have journaled on Myspace, but I'm not into that on there either. So there you go. No where to go.
Sorry your Gaz left and who ever else your friends were. That happens people get tired of messing with this place and/or don't have enough time. I look for that to happen bad this summer. I have to FORCE myself to come here anymore. It's awful.
Take care, Chrissie
Vent anytime you want to. I wouldn't be too concerned with people not commenting. I think that sometimes it's a mood thing. They are interested in how you're doing, but not in the mood to have to say anything.
Sorry about the BFF. I know how that feels. Especially when you are left wondering WTF?
Hope your day goes well,
Sheri
I do notice when you post..it is just that...I'm LAZY and don't comment! I was wondering where Gaz has been...tell him to get off his hiney and post something soon!!
i agree with you...I miss AOL. It was much more user friendly. I use less graphics over here, too. Just kind of a pain to set 'em up.
I lost some readers when we came over here.
Sorry about your BFF. I lost my best friend Joey. I'm still saying WTF?? He just cut me right out of his life. I did not deserve that....and there's no way it would ever go back. He's waited to long. Always sad to lose a friend.
Have a good rest!
I miss aol, but haven't had too bad a time on blogger at all. I too follow the blog roll and the dash board and seem to keep up ok. I am getting used to it. I opened and quit on face book I didn't care for that at all, but I like to journal, so blogger it is for me. I hope your 5 days off are great ones. Is it warm enougth to sit in the sun there??? 'On Ya'-ma
Well I am still here and I am still reading! LOL
I know what it is like to lose a friend, but hand on tight, everything comes out in the wash.
OH! One of our marines is heading your way! I have never been to Fl. so I may have to go visit him.
Kelli
I feel exactly the same way as you do Lynn.So much so I thought I was reading my own words.I also miss people from J/Land who went missing and wonder all the time how they are, what are they doing,did they have difficulty making a blog so gave up? and the questions I ask myself about missing people from J/land go on and on.Blogger is not the same,and never will be knowone will ever convince me either Lynn.Look how popular you are and still you seem unhappy with blogger,so it speaks for itself doesn't it? I try to comment whenever I can and feeling well enough,Not been too good this last week, so I do a few a day.Yours happened to be today.Though postings seem to get less and less from people.I hope you soon feel a little better as you sound a little down to me and I know the feeling.I hope Gazza continues,I don't follow him but I have read some of his posts when I have been directed by friends to his posts when he was in J/Land and he is soooo funny LOL!!I didn't know he wasn't writing now.Prayers for you and yours always. Take Care God Bless Kath xx
I am still reading but am guilty of not commenting much! I much prefered aol journals too. Sorry things with your friend. Love Louise xx
I actually love blogger. I personally think it offers a lot more personality than aol did.
I get an alert every time you post on my google reader. I might not comment every time since my knee surgery, but I am reading every day.
For private blogs, I have them in my favorites and I just take a few minutes every day to see if they posted. It's not a big deal to me.
I don't use facebook. I tried, but didn't like it. I'm a blogger addict I guess.
Hope you have a great day and enjoy your florida weather. We're still cold up here in PA!!
Hey hun i get what you mean about aol & blogger. Someday i miss aol but most of the time honestly i dont. I love how blogger is more customizable. Its something to get used to i know, its way different then aol. Many people had aol blogs for yrs then were thrown here to blogger. Its going to take sometime. You have all the reason to vent hun. My gosh hun its unreal how many ppl follow u, lol. I have only 12 lmao. Some of them dont comment sometimes, lol. I know alot of the times i dont hear from others is cause there busy. Well im hoping anyway cause sometimes i worry i bore my readers away, lol. I wish sometimes yeah i would get more comments or have more readers i think we all do. I get what ur saying though u get about 20 or so comments but have over a 100 followers yeah something isnt right there, lol. Im sorry hun to that 2 of your fav bloggers quit thats awful hun. I would be so sad about that too hun im sorry, *hugs* I am agian sorry about ur bff too thats awful too. I was really praying and hoping things would work out, *sigh* I am still praying for u hun. I know that is really hurting :( Anyway hun enjoy ur days to relax. Agian u have all the right to vent. We love yah dear. Take care hun. ttys, *hugs, Leslie
I dont hate you Lyn ,I agree with you ,come back JLand all is forgiven ,it takes me a whole morning to do an entry ,if Iam to put graphics and pictures on thetre some times ,with the journal everything was to hand ,however ....!!! ...love Jan xx
Lyn, I try to keep up with commenting , but I always get behind, sorry about your BFF, the same thing sadly has happened to me, I was thinking of quitting my fan fiction journal since nobody bothers to comment there, Hugs Lisa
I really like the reader. I have gotten used to Blogger and actually like it a lot more than AOL. You can set up your own e-mail alerts to view other blogs by using something like FEEDBURNER. You just enter the address that you want to receive alerts on.
*M*
Lyn I think we all feel the way you do ~ aol just seemed to cut us all off and that was such a shame ~ we had all got used to the Jland and miss it ~ but life goes on and I am glad we are still together her in Blogland ~ Ally xx
I'm with you Lyn. I find the move-over to blogger has really disrupted things. People don't post as much. I really like the email alerts we had on jland. The reader got to choose if they wanted to be alerted. I don't want to force myself on someone else, so I don't send out notices, thus I've lost almost all my readers (not that I had many). I'm on facebook too, but you can't journal. Not satisfying for a wordy person like me. I'll try to look you up and add you - so keep an eye out for a friend-ing from me!
I'm sorry about your ex-BFF. That's gotta be tough.
I have actually encouraged people not to feel they -have- to comment on my entries because I think sometimes if I am following a dark line of thought(which I mostly have of late) people don't know what to say or just basically tell me I am a good daughter lol, when really it is just my way of getting the stuff OUT THERE & out of my mind. Some people have very deep things to say about my posts, but if someone does not, they can just read & not say anything at all.
One of the things I do like about blogger is I skip around to a lot more blogs, just hopscotching along and find some really fantastic writers.
I am sorry about your friend, but I think she just may not be able to let go of her own guilt, so it is easier to take it out on you. Very wrong, but I have seen it before.
~Mary
Agreed - venting is a healthy, needed thing as long as you know not to expect any real solutions lol. I just enjoy the support when someone says "Hang in" or "Praying for you" that's when you know if anyone hears you or not. I want to read every blog I follow. As for AOHell you're right about one thing, they did make Journaling a simple process. Cutbacks in the wrong places, eh?
I am one of the few that does follow your blog, but hardly never comments. I like your blog a lot, I like your bubbly personality and how easy going you are. However, I do hate bloggerville. I dislike the dashboard and I dislike how I have to search for people and by the time I have done that I am out of time to read and comment. So I have to figure out where I will comment today, how long and how much? It is not as much fun as J-Land was. But, we have to make the best out of it. I don't have an own blog, so, I can't relay to disappointment or frustration about 100 some people not commenting each and every time. But I will try to do better from here on out.
I enjoy your entries and I hope you will not give up.
Maria
This isnt about you lyn:
But I wished everyone would quit WHINING about blogger. Blogger is about better than JLAND.
BLOGGER offers A WHOLE HELL of alot more than AOL JOURNALS DID.. trust me I use to be a AOL JOURNALER and then I came here to blogger and I was like OMG where has this been all my life.
I mean things dont stay the same forever things change and I mean you have to accept the fact that its ( AOL JOURNALS) is no more and lets learn about this nice service that we were offered.
JUST be glad we wasnt put out inthe cold
( as in JLAND just closed and no where to go )
Thats all I ask.......
--- Christopher
http://cmarlow480.blogspot.com/
Venting is good.... that is what blog friends are for isn't it. You can vent all that you want over the net....it is good therapy...and blog friends are there to support you.
Sorry about your best friend. I keep hoping that situation will get better... maybe it still will.
Have a better week ahead and get some good rest on your days off.
(((hugs))) Lura
You are speaking right to me! I so miss the alerts that I could check off of my list so to speak. That way unless AOL was messing up I could keep track of everyone. I miss Dawn and don't know what happend to her. And Kas from KY. So many now that I think about it. And yeah, I have 40something followers and get maybe 6 comments! Oh well.
Hi Lyn, I read your blog. I have commented but not often. I didn't have a 'journal' before but I finally started a blog. I'm still learning. I can't think of something to write everyday like some can. Hopefully it will get better as time goes along. Venting is always a good thing...ha. Sorry about your 'BFF'. Have a great time off work.
Sheila
Im with you, Lyn. I miss the ease of the email alert. I find that I always have time to read an email (which would then send me over to journals), but I don't always have time to go to dashboard and catch up on all the entries.
Hello Lin :) I'm very sorry I haven't been writing.. I been in a funk and you know what happens when I go into one of those ~ I hide.
I agree with you about Blogger not feeling like J'Land... I miss it. It's like the J'Landers are having a really hard time adjusting, most of us anyway. It's not as close in my opinion. I like the comments too, I like knowing someone is out there really "listening" and really caring. Sometimes I feel as though some that do leave comments are just "going through the motion" ~ does that makes sense?
I miss Gaz too, he hasn't even been by my blog either since it's been transferred. I haven't seen Russ either, though he IS on my followers list. It's amazing when you watch your followers list and you see people disappear ~ it's almost like well this one is boring I think I won't follow anymore, only follow the good in one's life and forget the truth that there's good AND bad ::sigh::.
Anyway I'm here...missed you* Hugs** Teresa
I agree- its hard to keep up with everyone with out the alerts.
I miss aol journals too - Blogger is ok but its not the same
I'm sorry about your ex BFF - that sucks/
Thanks for your comment on my blog!
Love,
Michelle
Wow I feel the same way! I miss having those alerts in my mailbox! It was so much easier to keep up when I knew who was posting! Linda
I totally agree....I have 20 readers and only get 2 or 3 comments per post. I try to post a least once a week. I figure like me people have lives and I dont take it personal. However, it is hard to keep up with the other journals....the emails made it so much easier!!!
Nothing will compare to Jland...because that was my first blog "home"...but I love Blogger as well...and it has many more options then AOL did...I do agree that the email alerts were great..and I do miss that feature...
As far as comments, I just figure everyones life is busy...although some may read they might not have time to comment on each and every post...I try not to let it bother me...cause I am in a rush at times myself...but it doesn't mean we don't care :)
Sorry about your BFF....I hope you two can work things out..
Hugs
Terri
Dont know if Ive commented before, but I love your blog! blogger is certainly different then AOL. Sorry about your BFF, been there on that one, it really hurts. Have a great day!
Aww ((Lyn)) vent away...
I am one of the guilty that don't comment all the time, and there are days when I don't get to all the blogs I read.
I, too miss J-Land, but am stumbling along here, hoping to stay caught up.
I'm sorry to hear about your BFF, it will take time to mourn the loss of that relationship.
Next time you talk to Gaz, send along a hug from me, I miss his entries.
:) Leigh
Hey, you got a bunch more comments than me! lol
I think I saw 42!
Life gets busy I guess for folks. I know that a lot of people read that don't like to comment. And sometimes it is hard to read all the blogs. For me, example, working and going to school, and having an active family, and too many hobbies, and now sucked into Facebook. I don't get to read blogs as much. But it is nice to know that there is enough of us around to get comments in to support one another when needed. It might be my day one day to comment and someone elses the next. I like that most of us understand that. We have a good group! I still don't know everyone yet though. I am signed up for way more blogs than I can read. I miss J land too, but I like the way we can add HTML stuff and decorate our blogs. lol
Have a good day. Thanks for your support of me the last week or so! That means so much.
Sonya
(((Lyn)))
I feel the same buddy. Nothing, nothing will compare to AOL J-Land. I'm still so mad they stopped. In my opinion, Blogger stinks in so many ways (lol). I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who feels this way. It's a shame they don't make Blogger better. And Facebook? I don't really care too much for that either. And the people who think that it's safe just because they 'reverted' their policy---beware!
Have a great weekend and thank you so very much for stopping and posting such nice things :)
Big Huggers, Gayla
Oh I so miss AOL journals! I miss it more every single day!!!
Love ya!
Connie
Well I don't have any followers and I'm ok with that! Of course, I've not posted regularly for several months now. Oy.
I'm glad you got your venting out sweetie pie. I luvs ya!
On of the reasons I have the blues is THIS PLACE. It's so hard to catch up with people on here and I can't even get into Toon guys blog unless I go in the back door!! Please excuse the pun.
It's so difficult on here and I have every conceivable device to help me but some blogs I just cant access even though I'm a 'follower'!
Oh well have said my bit.
Gaz xx
I owe you a huge apology as I haven't been by your blog. I feel exactly the same way you do about Blogger and Jland. I was getting out of the mood to write anyway. I don't feel like there's much to write about anyway. It's been a pretty crappy 6 months around here and journaling too. I never get many comments, but I didn't over at JLand either. i'll try catching up with you. I always enjoyed reading your blog.
Hugs, Barb *queenb*
I owe you a huge apology as I haven't been by your blog. I feel exactly the same way you do about Blogger and Jland. I was getting out of the mood to write anyway. I don't feel like there's much to write about anyway. It's been a pretty crappy 6 months around here and journaling too. I never get many comments, but I didn't over at JLand either. i'll try catching up with you. I always enjoyed reading your blog.
Hugs, Barb *queenb*
Sending you lots of hugs!
Gretchen
I miss the alerts at AOL too. I find that even using the dashboard I'm missing posts from some of my favorite blogs. Change sucks! Anyway, I'm sorry things have still not aired out between you and your BFF, I keep hoping the next time I stop in to read that you'll say that you guys are on your way to healing things back up. Hope you enjoyed those five days off, I'm sure they were much deserved.
xoxo, me
We chatted about this on Facebook :)...so you know I feel the same way!! I think the biggest thing I miss is the alerts. Everything else I have gotten used to and like it but I really miss getting an alert to tell me someone had posted.
xx
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