My Name is...

ANONYMOUS...

If you're a blogger and an avid reader of other blogs like me, you've probably seen this before. You read a blog post and you see that there are comments about the post, particularly if it's about something interesting or controversial. Often times the comments are complete with the full name of the poster and even a link to their own blog or webpage. Other times, I'll see anonymous comments from people who do not do so much as to even state the first initial of their name. Now this is fine if you're just leaving a little note, or saying something kind to said blog author. More times than not though, the anonymous commenters aren't very nice. In fact they are often just plain mean and condescending!!!

Fortunately (perhaps), I rarely receive anonymous comments on my blog. When I have received such comments in the past, the people have had the common decency to at least leave me a first name. There are probably a good dozen or so blogs that I regularly read, and sometimes the authors receive some rather scathing anonymous comments without so much as a mention from the writers as to whom they are...

The above leads me to the following question. If you're going to write a mean or "put-down" anonymous comment on someone or to someone, then why are you afraid of so much as stating your first name??? Are you scared that the said blog writer is going to come find you and give you a scolding??? Are you afraid of what your friends would think if they suddenly found out you weren't the nice person you pretended to be??? Are you afraid of what would happen if your boss found out??? Just what is the motive behind these kind of anonymous comments???

To me, those people that leave the above type of anonymous comments are just big phoneys, cowards and scaredy cats! If you don't have the backbone to state your identity and actually BACK UP what you're saying then you really shouldn't be commenting anonymously in the first place.

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