Today when I was working, someone walked into my small workplace, scoffed at the things we had available, commented on her displeasure, and walked out because it wasn't to her liking. To be honest, her shirt made her look like a gremlin, but I didn't scoff at it and say it was ugly just because I didn't like it. I hate when people are rude at stores because they don't like the particular products or whatever the case is. It's personally rude to the people who work there, because its offending them on their taste in places to work. If I enter a store I don't find particularly pleasant, I simply leave. Not even in a rude way.
When I look over various blogs online, I'm bound to find some comments saying something like "Your blog is stupid, you should go die". Maybe all of them aren't quite so harsh, but you get the point. In my class when we started these blogs, we talked a lot about who to follow and how to comment. We came to the decision that we should follow blogs each of us liked, and that there's no pressure to read or follow blogs that didn't strike a cord with us. Then, we established an idea of respect! If you don't like a post, don't comment on it. And if you have some sort of criticism, do it constructively so that the blogger doesn't feel attacked, but aided. And whenever you have a good comment to leave, do it.
So, if you come across a blog you don't like, be respectful about it; you don't have to follow! Just like if you go to a store you're not a fan of, you don't have to shop there; leave respectfully!!
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