I am following 57 sites. Now a lot complained that I am not following them anymore.. to my amazement when I checked on my dashboard and manage the blogs I am following, I am still following all of it but anonymously.. what the!?! and the only one site that I am following publicly is Review stream.. what the!?! How in the world I can edit all those 56 and change the settings to anonymously where in all the while my connection was out? Yes it is a GLITCH.. If you have just lost a lot of followers, it is not, you DID NOT offend anyone. NO, there is no hate club or hate blog going against you.. trash blogspot if you want but not your followers who suddenly “decide” to follow you anonymously.. And if people suddenly thinks you are being the madman and asking why you stopped following them.. you did not.. trust me. I checked the blog of two or three blogger friends and discovered that I am not on the list of their followers.. but it still says that I am following them. To check it, just go to your dashboard and manage the blogs you are following. You can see if you are following them publicly or anonymously. Just change the setting if you have the patience. To those 56 bloggers or site owners.. I will be following you again PUBLICLY.. just give me some time.. afterall, it is not easy changing the settings (yes one by one) of 56 sites.. It seems that it was not a glitch after all.. but instead, Google applied a new application in our blog.. the Google Friend Connect.. IT is another social networking site, right under your blog or site. People can join your site (instead of being just a follower) by signing in using their Goggle accounts, Yahoo accounts or other accounts.. I ma still figuring it all out.. Just a question… Did you lost some followers too? or you also “started following anonymously”.. or is it just me? WHY ME?!?
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fedhz says
February 26, 2009 at 10:06 amI've read about Google Connect but haven't tried it myself. I also haven't checked my blogger accounts so I didn't notice any "glitch" from them yet. My fedhz.com blog is wordpress. nyway, hope your kids are doing okay now. ^^
pehpot says
February 26, 2009 at 10:42 amfedhz..beta testing pa lang at minalas ako na mabeta huhu
Enchie says
February 26, 2009 at 2:54 pmHi Mommy! oo nga, nawala ka sa followers ko. Pero don't worry, I'm still following you.
janet says
February 27, 2009 at 3:41 amno wonder i've lost some followers. and i almost took it personally. LOL. thanks for the info. i also noticed a change in the widget… but haven't tried it out yet.
Tetcha says
February 27, 2009 at 4:20 amKaya pala when I checked my blog yesterday, I noticed a change in my Followers setting. Thanks for this info, Pehpot. I'll check my dashboard later.
Sara says
February 27, 2009 at 6:27 amhi PehpotThank you for explaining the glitch! I am so relieved, being a new blogger is so confusing sometimes:)Have a great daySara
Evan's Mom says
February 27, 2009 at 6:48 amYou're right it's the Friend Connect thing that caused it. Thank goodness some bloggers I'm following publicly understand when I informed them about this, even though I haven't had time to change the status. Give some time Pehpot, they will understand eventually 🙂
Jona says
February 27, 2009 at 7:27 amwhatever happens you're in my bloglist 😀 thanks for informing me. grocery muna kame, wala ng food dito hehe 😀
earthlingorgeous says
February 27, 2009 at 10:22 amI noticed this the other day about 11 followers ko nawala in one day I was so shocked I thought what did I do wrong? Or something like that. But then again I saw my subscribers are still the same and growing. Thanks for your info about this i saw the change na nga today. He no worries 🙂 Blogging friends still 🙂
Mira says
February 27, 2009 at 4:56 pmThanks for fixing it at your end. I was not aware of it till I saw a blog post while EC dropping. I will try to fix mine too. Have a great weekend.
Keri says
February 28, 2009 at 4:44 amI'm thinking you're not the only one this happened too. But what I'm wondering is… why fix something that isn't broke? I'm not so crazy about the new following deal. Maybe it'll take time, but not too happy with the new change. Oh well, I'm still following you!
OM says
March 1, 2009 at 4:04 amIt happened to me too. I follow everyone anonymously. I started changing it one by one, but I don't have the energy anymore. I just hope they change it.
Sherry says
March 1, 2010 at 4:11 amI used the blogger to follow and we are limit to follow up to 300 blogs only so I cannot follow all of them, if blogs no update I will delete from the list.
redamethyst says
March 5, 2010 at 6:25 amanong pinagkaiba ng google friend connect sa following lang?
niko says
March 18, 2010 at 9:42 amuu nga ano ang pinagkaiba? dali post na sa Noob
Jenny So says
October 22, 2011 at 3:14 amI am following anonymously. I like to keep things private. 🙂