Arguably, one of the most intimidating things about blogging is knowing that you’re constantly opening yourself up to critique.
For the most part, this isn’t something that’s really all that bad especially when you consider that that you’re offering information up to help others, or to ask others for help in a given situation.
More often than not, I’ve found that people are happy to oblige one way or the other through comments, emails, tweets, and so on.
Unfortunately, you can’t have one without the other.
By that, I mean that every positive comment, every reaffirmation, or every bit of advice offering ways to improve what you’re on saying, you’re likely going to be generating negative feedback and/or criticism from someone.
The thing is, positive feedback usually comes in the form of retweets, shares, and so on.
Negative feedback may be harder to detect unless it’s posted directly in a comment because – for whatever reason – others don’t always mention your handle in tweets, pingbacks, and so on.
On one hand, perhaps ignorance is bliss, but I’m of a different mindset: If you have something negative to say about a person or an idea that they’ve shared (after all, it’s not always personal), then why not bring it to their attention?
