Commenting on other peoples blog comments is very 2003. But I am going to anyway.

I quite like the cosy little psych blog collective that is growing down the sidebar. It makes me feel less alone part of a mini community. One of the the things I am never quite sure of is how people are going to take something I wrote, as I have recieved everything from Pizza Hut coupons to deathwishes, but thats all part of the fun, and sometimes things can take a life of their own. This especially applies to the comments section, which is by far the most fun part of any blog. To be slated by your own comments is a bit like someone coming into your house and calling you "a slut", which is unusual.

The delightful Desperately Seeking Psychology doesnt seem to have that problem. She made several interesting observations about her views on the various forums and their inhabitants. As she is absolutely entitled to. She then had a change of mind. However, her commentators seem to have taken this opportunity to vent their collective spleen, and a mini tsunami in a teacup sprung up. Leaving individual personality attacks to one side, there was an interesting comment about how psychology attracts a certain type of person whether its competitive, ego massaging, reassurance seeking or just after their own validation. At the very least it attracts people that like to be anonymous. It is something I have often wondered here and would by dying to read any real research done on it. To be honest, its probably one of the things that drove me out of that particular line of work (that and the small fact I never got on a course, but we won't mention that will we).

I am not sure where its going, but something tells me I am going to watch how it develops.