intended audience

I was pondering over the different sort of reactions people give when you talk to them about a particular blog post or journal entry they made.

Some are immediately excited, they are sort of glad that someone shares the same thoughts act.
Then there are the defensive ones who assault you with all forms of accusations of stalking and that it creeps them out and you should stop it or they will up their privacy (which some really carry out :O).

I wonder why, and if I want to give their character the benefit of the doubt, maybe it boils down to intended readers.
Not everyone who keeps a blog is honest about knowing that a blog is public. I.e, whatever you published is really freely open to scrutiny from the public. So why do they still do it? Why not keep one in their silly laptops or on tangible paper?

I think most bloggers have intended readers. People they try to get to amidst a sea of possible readers. When you take interest in their blogs but they never took interest in you, they get... disappointed.
I don't know. It's a cauldron of intentions and emotions there.
I think it's something like disappointment and then all sorts of indignation. They may even be mad at themselves, for failing to tailor their posts in a way which attracts only the desired attention.

Then there are those who are really aware. Who blogged because they don't even care if anyone reads it. Any reader is a pleasant surprise. They don't care who exactly reads it either, though preferably if anyone has something to say, it better be intelligent.

I think I'm describing myself. Back when I had a tagbox, I received a fair share of shit comments. There are people who decked themselves in anonymous avatars and offer a wise crack or 2.
One I distinctly remember was when this boy from JC (when I was in JC. Yes I term him "boy" for reasons) came and offered a "don't worry, she will be loved" in response to some musings over the breakup I had in J2.

That's the sort of thing that ticks me off. I don't feel stalked, neither am I motivated to shut down my blog in someways. But seriously, if anything, such comments are the ones which fully warrant a negative response (which can well be a no-reply).

Whereas for those stalker accusers, I don't even have one thing to say. You put your blog up, it's open. If your first reaction is "Why did you stalk me?", deep within the recedes of your mind you did it all intentionally for CERTAIN stalkers to stalk you.
So if you're already into exposing yourself intentionally for stalking, don't get picky. Face the music.