What's in a Profile? Inquiring minds want to know.

Surfing blog postings earlier today, I inadvertently clicked on the link to the writer’s profile. Accidental clicks are not new to me…I’ve accidentally been many places on the Internet, some of them fun and interesting, a few disgusting, and one a truly black nothingness (that was the night the cat got on the keyboard). Anyway, it was surprising news to me that Blogger was running a count on the number of times a profile had been viewed. Naturally, I tuned into my own immediately.

I’ve been posting my little-read blog for about eight months now, so it was shocking to see that my profile – nothing more than an inconsequential paragraph – had been viewed 109 times! “Good grief,” I mused to my self, “Why would anyone be interested? And what do they expect to see?”

That profile, or completing it, has never held much interest for me. After all, I know very well who I am and how I got to be that way. Considering that most of my readers are cyber friends who already know me rather well, I can’t imagine their curiosity causing them to click on that link, but then I started wondering what strangers would want to know and why they would think anyone would be willing to provide them with a truthful thumbnail sketch about themselves.

If any of you would be willing to provide me with clues about what you’d want to know about someone’s whose musings you’ve read, I would certainly be interested in knowing. Just leave a message in the comments section; after all, it’s free, you know. Make up a name and a password or use your own if you’re also a blogger. Elucidation is always valuable, especially to someone who is constantly curious - like me.