QOW Comment

"Anonymously Wanting to be Known"

Most bloggers are anonymous posters with no real identity. When we view a post from a blogger we don't really know who the person is. They may be using a false name or a creative nickname. Even if they use their real name, we don't see the face of the actual person. We don't know who they are by reputation as we would if we were reading something say by F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Even though we don't know him personally, we definitely know who he is and perhaps even some personal history.
We can get to know a blogger by seeing their posts regularly. We can get a sense of their feelings and opinions and can usually sense if they are passionate about something from their response. We can get clues from their language and the way they use it, even from their punctuation and use of abbreviations. We can guess from the frequency of their posts : How much spare time they have, How lonely they are, If they talk about their family, Maybe they are obsessed with blogging, The subjects they blog about, How current are knowledgable they are about the subject they are blogging about.
We can also get an idea if they are slightly unbalanced when we come across a totally off-the -wall post.