Feeling uneasy spamming people

[szabgab]

I am following the suggestions several people gave me on how to get involved in DW. I am checking out people linked from the comments to that post and some other posts I made. Reading some of their entries commenting on those entries I find some interesting and marking them as being in my circle. Then I follow some more links from their posts and do the whole thing again recursively.

But I feel uneasy commenting on blogs of total strangers and marking people quite randomly. Why them and not some others from the other 6 billion out there?
I don't know them personally. I don't even know them online. Maybe I read a few lines they wrote, but then what?
That does not really give me any right to just push my unwanted words on them.

I have my own blog elsewhere where I have been writing for 3 years or so but that was strictly professional. I was commenting on other peoples blogs but those were professional entries as well.

I guess I am uneasy with getting too personal with total strangers.

Comments

[yvi]

Well, as for me, I make public posts on DW because I like new people dropping by and commenting.

If you feel uncomfortable doing it because of the subject or something, of course, don't do it. But if you only feel uncomfortable because you feel like you are intruding, please don't. A platform like DW is a lot about the human interaction and sometimes not so much about the content. Professional conversation is nice, but also just having someone say "Hey, that sucks" when they post about something happening is also really nice, even if you don't know each other very well.

And, well, everything zorkian said :)