I think I might have sounded more negative than I meant.
I have a fairly large number of people reading me, so there aren't all that many posts where noone says anything at all. If I get no comments, I kind of get that "Hello, is this mike on?" feeling.
I don't feel bad, or any resentment, if any particular person doesn't post, and I surely don't comment on every one of my friends' posts (I would never be able to do anything else if I tried that!). But I do feel happy when I get a comment, because that means that there is some interaction going on.
The people on LJ that I feel closest to are the ones that I chat with through comments, both on my LJ and on theirs. Not necessarily every post, not necessarily every day even, but occasionally.
To be specific, I don't have a feeling that you and I don't interact. I mean, here we are right now :D And we've chatted about other things in the past as well, and I'm quite happy with that.
There are a couple of people that I don't feel particularly close to. When I read their writings, I'm not motivated to comment, and rarely get a comment from them.
I do use my journal differently from most other writers, in that I don't have any real life friends on my flist. I read only one person that I've ever _met_ in RL, and that was an old friend that I hadn't spoken to for years before finding on LJ. So the vast majority of my communication is through comments.
I'm rambling. I'm going to stop. Simple summary: I like getting comments, but don't feel like LJ has no meaning if I don't, and would hate the thought that anyone would feel pressured to leave comments if they're not motivated to by what I write. :)
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I have a fairly large number of people reading me, so there aren't all that many posts where noone says anything at all. If I get no comments, I kind of get that "Hello, is this mike on?" feeling.
I don't feel bad, or any resentment, if any particular person doesn't post, and I surely don't comment on every one of my friends' posts (I would never be able to do anything else if I tried that!). But I do feel happy when I get a comment, because that means that there is some interaction going on.
The people on LJ that I feel closest to are the ones that I chat with through comments, both on my LJ and on theirs. Not necessarily every post, not necessarily every day even, but occasionally.
To be specific, I don't have a feeling that you and I don't interact. I mean, here we are right now :D And we've chatted about other things in the past as well, and I'm quite happy with that.
There are a couple of people that I don't feel particularly close to. When I read their writings, I'm not motivated to comment, and rarely get a comment from them.
I do use my journal differently from most other writers, in that I don't have any real life friends on my flist. I read only one person that I've ever _met_ in RL, and that was an old friend that I hadn't spoken to for years before finding on LJ. So the vast majority of my communication is through comments.
I'm rambling. I'm going to stop. Simple summary: I like getting comments, but don't feel like LJ has no meaning if I don't, and would hate the thought that anyone would feel pressured to leave comments if they're not motivated to by what I write. :)