Recently I have received several comments on my blog under the name “anonymous.” Because I don’t know you, I looked you up in my dictionary to understand you better. According to the dictionary on my Mac dashboard you are someone who, “has no outstanding, individual, or unusual features; unremarkable or impersonal.” Because I don’t want to believe this about you, I have written this note specifically for you:
Dear anonymous commenter,
Why do you choose to be anonymous? Are you scared of revealing yourself to the Internet world? Do you know how to fill your name into the box that says “name”? Are you in too big of a hurry to get to the next website you read? Are you trying to be funny? Or perhaps rude?
Whatever your answers to any of these questions are, anonymous, I want you to know I love you, and better than that Jesus loves you. Often times I do think you are funny and chuckle at some of the words you use, like Pee Wee used to do when someone said the infamous word of the day. However, because of my love for the other individuals that read my blog I can’t always allow your comments to be known.
I do want us to be friends, anonymous, but you’re making it quite difficult. Let’s bury the hatchet. I’ll go first. Hello. My name is Matthew Costner. So good to meet you…
6 comments:
Great post!
I once in a great while get comments on my blog (it is called The Great Faith Adventure - Allan Hall kind of gave me the idea for the name). The latest one I got was from Anonymous. They commented on the Jadon Lavik video I had on there. I am like dude who are you and how the heck did you find my blog and do I know you already? I hated that they did not leave their name.
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Don't you just love those guys/gals. We have gotten a ton of those on our blogs.
We used to delete them but then we let the masses of people read the comment and then go to town on the Anonymous person. I dunno.. Im not sure which is the best way to deal with them.
Great letter though :)
Anonymous commenters come in three forms in my opinion...
1. People who literally do NOT know the internet or blog world well enough to enter an ID...sad but true.
2 People who just mean spirited.
3. People who are afraid for whatever reason.
What's even more sad is that many churches allow and respond to anonymous notes about their ministers. It would be nice to know which of the categories they fall into...my snap judgement usually puts them in category 2. Would be interesting to know why they do what they do. Can you get on that, Costner??
I personally detest the anonymous comment. It pisses everyone off. And...I think that's the intent.
Just found your blog and I'm glad to see fellow Baptist blogging about their experiences in life and ministry. Looking forward to more posts!
Andrew
haha! So true! A reader of mine sent me to read this on your blog because I've been getting a lot of anonymous comments lately.
Thanks for this funny post.
Blessings!
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