It
was brought to my attention several weeks ago that a couple of my dear friends
were no longer replying to the comments that I had been leaving on their
respective blog posts. At first, I
assumed that it was just on account of them receiving so many comments and not
having the time to leave a reply for them all, but then days stretched into
weeks.
Be
assured that I found it quite perplexing.
For I thought that they considered me to be as dear of a friend to them as
I considered them to be to me.
It
was around this time that my natural tendency towards paranoia snuck up and
slapped me on the back of my head, and with my wife not being all that good for
my self-esteem, it stung quite a bit.
For she has made it abundantly clear on several occasions that I am not
nearly as charming, nor funny, as I would like to believe I am. Therefore, it made sense to me that I may
have crossed a line in another attempt at being charming and/or funny in a comment,
and it was on account of this that my dear friends were giving me the silent
treatment.
I
finally asked one of them in an email if I may have upset her in some way, and
her assurances that this was not the case did make me feel better. Nonetheless, her reason for no longer
replying to my comments left me even more perplexed. For she said that I had hidden my email
address, and that it was for this reason that she had not been replying to my
comments.
Whoa,
when did I do that? For I have always
been very focused on making myself as accessible as possible on account of my
ministry, and this included all of my online shenanigans activities.
Oh
yeah, it was indeed a puzzler to me. For
there was my email address prominently on display on my Google+ profile, and
all of my efforts to find an answer online were proving to be rather fruitless.
Adding
all the more to my dilemma was that the way my two friends had been replying to
my comments lately was via email. They started out leaving replies as comments, but had switched to replying to comments
via email in the same way as one would reply to a regular email, which is
something that I have never pursued on account of wanting to keep as much as
possible out in the open—especially when it came to a dispute with a reader.
In
all fairness, the thought had floated through some weeks ago that the trouble with my email
address being hidden started when I switched
from having my name attached to my Blogger profile to my Google+ one, but
it was not until a few days ago that I went to check, which is when it all become clear to me. For when my name was attached to my
Blogger profile, email notifications of a comment left by me came from Jerry E. Beuterbaugh (after I changed from
FishHawk) FishHawk7@gmail.com via blogger.bounces.google.com, which
allows the recipient to just hit “reply” to send a reply via email. Whereas, with my name being attached to
my Google+ profile, email notifications of a comment were coming from Jerry E. Beuterbaugh noreply-comment@blogger.com, which obviously does not
allow the recipient to just hit “reply” to send a reply via email.
Now,
I struggle with the use of replying to comments via email. For they do not show up in the comments
section, which leaves the impression to a newcomer that they have come to another
place where the owner does not care to respond to those who have taken the time
to express what they think of their efforts—not to mention stop any hope of
continuing the discussion for the benefit of those who are content to just read
the back and forth.
Of
course, if you do not usually publish articles that might warrant further
discussion, there probably would not be much back and forth to read, and if you
are trapped in the same bubble as I have been, there probably will not be much
back and forth, anyway. Yeah, the “stuff”
that I publish might have something to with that, but I would rather not get
into any discussion about it at this time.
(LOL?)
I
can also understand how replying to comments via email can save a lot of time
for those who have lives to live offline, and it was on account of this that I
switched back to my old Blogger profile a couple of days ago. However, I returned to my Google+ profile
when it was brought to my attention that I could no longer “share” blog posts
with my followers there, and since their number is now approaching 200, that
would be a lot of missed opportunities to "share” what I have been given to
offer—regardless of what that may be.
Well,
I am really confused right now. For I
just checked if the address associated with email notifications of blog comments
from me was still Jerry E. Beuterbaugh noreply-comments@blogger.com with my name being attached to my Google+ profile, and it came up
as if it was attached with my Blogger profile.
So, I don’t know if Blogger has made a change or what. Yeah, if my wife would let me have any of it, her money would be on
what.
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4 comments:
Sounds to me like google+ and blogger are just messin with ya :) Strange how all that would get so messed up just by making that one little switch. This stuff sure can give you a headache
Just made me realize how little I know about blogging, emails and 'googling'.
Thanks for stopping by over here, my dear Ann!!! I think Google was wanting Google+ to be like a Facebook thing where one has to become a follower before they can gain access to all of the goodies, but since one could make their email address public on their Google+ profile, I do not know why they would change the bogger.bounces protocols.
Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Brenda!!! Be assured that it keeps me confused much of the time, and I am perfectly willing to accept that trying to understand is really not worth the headaches. Of course, most of it is probably no trouble at all for those who are not as technically-challenged as I naturally am.
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