Appreciative Nerd

I love it when YouTubers or other people who have a lot of Twitter followers take the time to actually respond to what their followers say. Every time one of them responds to something I say, I have a mini freak out session (and I mean every time), and then I save it to my favorites so I will never forget. In the past week, I have received quite a few replies. Maybe it's not like this every week, buy that's what made this past week special.

And, I'm not just talking about when they respond to something I say; I get happy for the other people who are recognized, too. I love it when they retweet/blog/etc. something that one of their followers have done. Not only does it show that they to care and they do pay attention, but the rest of us get to see the works, too.

It's not just a small group of people who do this, either. I don't know about a lot of "mainstream" celebrities, but the people who I follow (basically, a bunch of YouTubers, youth pastors, authors, Wizard Rockers, and a few Harry Potter or Glee actors) all seem to take the time to do this. For instance, I'm sure that Michael Buckley (one of the first people to respond to my random comments) has better things to do than to reply to my comment on his YouTube channel, that Alex Carpenter could have gone without all of the technical questions for the video he was working on last week, or that the people in Team Starkid could really find something to do other than read all of the fangirl comments and questions that they get, but they take the time to pay attention to their followers. They seem to genuinely appreciate the people who take an interest in them.

Honestly, when I make most of the comments/replies that I do, I just expect them to be lost in the croud. That's why when someone actually acknowledges my existence, I get so excited :)

So, to all of the people who take the time to make people like me a little bit happier every time we check our inbox and see that one of you have reconized our existence, here's a HUGE thanks. :)

-andrea aka fred