gotta have feedback

The article “My blog: My outward brain” talks about the need we have for information and for feedback. At one point the author talks about how the more he blogs the more reward, (feedback) he receives, as people tell him or email about something he wrote. This reminds me of when high school, when Xanga was new and exciting. Everyone seemed to have one, and I remember I created one to see how much feedback I could get. The whole concept of posting your blog to Xanga was to get these things called “eprops”, which were nothing but comments from other Xanga users. There was no real reason to post if you weren’t getting eprops. So the blogs that didn’t get eprops were never really updated, while the people who got eprops a lot updated a lot. This tells me that people really want other people to read their blogs. Of course, this seems logical, because if you are posting stuff on the internet, you probably understand that people are going to read it. This always tells me that people felt a sense of social importance based on how many other people were willing to read their blogs. I’m not sure I ever learned anything knowledgeable from reading Xanga, but I learned about people’s emotions. I was almost embarrassed for other people at some of the personal stuff they would post to Xanga. I guess most people are so obsessed with feedback that they don’t care if they post something that they’ll regret later on.