Hey everyone, I got my first blogging award, from alittletypical and it’s sort of a blogging chain letter challenge, but based on the fact that the person awarding it thinks you will be up for it having looked at your blog and that you don’t have lots of followers (I think). The challenge was this:
Use THREE words/ colours/ animals/ songs/Disney characters / Greek mythological figures to describe YOURSELF. It can be in a form of essays, drawings, photographs, collage, video or any other media for expression.
My worst nightmare! I don’t do such participation things, I don’t pass on chain emails, I don’t post statuses supporting things in facebook, I don’t do selfies with no makeup on and give the charity. It’s just not my thing. No offence, it just puts me under too much pressure to conform and I just can’t do it. But not wishing to upset anyone and finding myself trying to make new friends in the blogosphere as part of #blogging201, I thought a lot about it, came up with some old nonsense. But then I had a flash of inspiration and realised what I have to do is the above image. Sums me up in 3 words and has one of my kaleidoscopes in the background.
Where did this Liebster Blog Award originate? I’m not the only one to wonder this. The top answer I found before stopping that line of inquiry was this from Sopphey Says who is clearly a woman of taste as she has a purple background 😉
From that I realise I can decide to decline this award – I DO – and not pass it on – I WON’T – but instead I will mention some blogs that I think are worth a look:
- I really like the overall look and colour scheme of alittletypical and I am happy to have made that connection
- I made a new connection via twitter this week and that took me to this blog Having Fun With Depression
- And also thanks to #blogger201, I have come across the avant garde art and photography of redstuffdan, which I am enjoying a lot
I’ve learnt lots of new stuff recently, but I think I will save that for another post another day.
I agree with you entirely – what amazes me though is that friends don’t realise that you never pass these things on i.e. you always break the chain. Or maybe having upheld their part of the bargain to their friends they just don’t care either.
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I meant, if I have friends who take the hump at my actions, they’re not really my friends and I don’t actually care, but to be honest I don’t think people really notice.
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Thanks for the mention, Karen. Looking forward to reading more of your blog 🙂
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Great post, Karen. Very topical as one of my #blogging201 goals was to create an award. Wow, I have received some negative feedback on that. I never thought of it as a chain letter. And here I am always telling my friends not to forward mail to me, even if it doesn’t ask me to forward to 105 friends so I can get a blessing/surprise/million $/nothing at all.
My friends don’t like my lack of participation in their chain emails, but I suspect, like AnnetteM, that they probably don’t notice that I just delete the mail without opening it.
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I saw the goal you had about creating an award but I didn’t think too much about what it was or what it meant. It was something that hadn’t really sunk into my consciousness until now although I was vaguely aware of the phenomenon. I think it is harmless enough and does end up with interaction between bloggers. It’s just not for me!
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I meant for it to create traffic between bloggers of like mind. But I am not so sure it would be very effective, especially if others don’t pass it on.
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I think an optional follow recommendation thing, may not have the same chain letter feel. Something that people do on twitter and I’ve seen on a photo sharing site I belong to – eg Follow Friday.
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We must be kindred spirits Karen. I’m not fussed on the awards thing either, simply because I don’t have the time to write a big post about accepting one and passing it on, and I don’t want to burden the next person with it either. I did accept a couple when I first started blogging and then when I had a big tidy-up on my sidebar as part of 201 I removed them. I love being liked, but I don’t need any awards to prove it!
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Thanks, John, that is very kind of you.
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