** This post was originally posted this morning, and had a bunch of fabulous comments – but then something happened to my blog and I couldn’t figure out what. Thinking this posts may have had issues, I deleted it. That means your comments were deleted as well. I’m sorry. Please re-comment if you would like and hopefully I can figure out what is wrong with my blog!!!**
A twitter friend of mine, Ari Herzog, posted an experiment in January, asking all his readers to de-lurk . I had saved it in my ‘come back to it’ file and was thinking about it again today. I have to admit, I am a bit of a lurker. I read approximately 15 blogs every day, and another 15-20 posts that my twitter followers recommend throughout the day. I comment on 1 or 2. Sorry. I just do. I usually tweet about it if it is good, but no comment. Sometimes, I will even send the writer an email about the post rather than posting a comment – not sure why, but tweeting or emailing has always been less scary than commenting. Maybe because I always think my comment will be silly, or no one will care (worst, I think the writer won’t care!).
When I think about it now, my logic is really silly for two reasons.
One, I know how much I passionately care when my readers post a comment. And two, I have never once thought a comment someone posted on my blog was silly or worthless. So, I am taking the challenge with you – the challenge to de-lurk. I am going to make it my goal (if you’ll make it yours) to post a comment on at least 3 more blog posts daily, and hopefully mine will be one you chose!
To get us started, lets try something easy: Add a comment to this post. Even easier: add a comment to this post that is about you! Introduce yourself, how you found this site, what some of your favorite things are, your twitter url, your blog url, whatever url you love, and let us get to know you.
I’ll start:
I am Kirsten Wright, a 24 yr old conservative from Northern Cali (Los Gatos) now living in Orange County (Mission Viejo) with my husband of almost 2 years. I was a communications major at CSULB, am passionate about writing, speaking and creative anything. I started this blog because I love the feeling of being creative and wanted to share it with anyone who would listen. You can follow me on twitter @kirstenwright. It has taken me 5 years to finally realize that I need to bee 100% freelance to be happy. My favorite blog to read has nothing to do with business, but I think it’s hysterical (FAIL Blog) and you can always learn more about me by finding me on Facebook (if you add me as a friend, send a message with it!).
Now it’s your turn! C’mon…de-lurk! 
I follow my stats every day, from both google analytics and stat press (although stat press is becoming less and less trustworthy, so I have been using Google analytics more.) Anyway, while I have still been writing every week day (going on 9 weeks!) I have found that over the last 2, while readership has actually gone up, the comments have gone down. And I am not sure why. I have scratched my head, wondered if it was my writing (nah, readership is up!), wonder if all my commenters have gone into hiding (have you?), maybe I’m not controversial enough (since my OCRegister ‘controversial’ blog got tons of comments) or if all of a sudden, people have stopped caring about responding (say it isn’t so!).