What *is* Love Thursday?

I asked the same question when I first started blogging a couple of months ago. Here is the response I got: "Love Thursday" is a viral thing... If you google it, you will find it on other blogs. I am pretty sure that Jenna started it at adoptionblogs.com. She has an explanation of where it came from in this blog. [URL="http://birthparents.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/let-s-bring-love-thursday-over-here-as-w"]Birth / First Parent Blog - Let's Bring Love Thursday Over Here as Well![/URL] - Faith

Thanks, Faith! I scrolled down a bit and saw the thread where you asked that ::::blush::::, Guess I should read a little further, first, eh? :)I still don't really get the *origin* of it in looking at that other site, but I'm sure if I keep reading the Thursday posts I'll get the gist of it sooner or later! :)

[FONT=Verdana]Love Thursday is also an easy way to write a blog... You just have to brag about someone/something that you love.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Some weeks it seems like everyone is posting so many blogs about negative stories... Adoption slow down, child abuse, etc..[/FONT][FONT=Verdana][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]If every Thursday you write about "Love", you are also sure that you will post a positive blog once a week.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana][/FONT]

It's all of those things and... an easy way to boost your readership. Basically, it's like any other meme on the internet. This one has just spread like wildfire relatively quickly.Love Thursday was started by [URL="http://www.chookooloonks.com/chookooloonks/"]Chookooloonks[/URL], who has since ditched her private journal and started a [URL="http://chookooloonks.blogphotography.com/"]photoblog here[/URL], and [URL="http://irenenam.squarespace.com/"]Momster[/URL], which brought about the site: [URL="http://loveisallaround.squarespace.com/"]Love is All Around[/URL] and the [URL="http://www.flickr.com/groups/lovethursday/"]flickr group[/URL]. By adding your picture to the flickr pool (especially if you put a link in the description, linking to your blog post for the picture) and adding your link to the current [URL="http://loveisallaround.squarespace.com/"]Love is All Around[/URL] post (like everyone else who participates in the meme).. your Thursday stats will soar.That said, personally, I brought the meme to adoption blogs for the reason previously stated: we focus on a LOT of the negatives in adoption, rightly so because they NEED to be discussed, and it's important for ME to remember to think positive, at the very least once a week.

Thanks, Jenna...that was *extremely* helpful in clarifying for me! :)