Becoming a follower

Over the past year a number of my friends asked me what steps they must take to become a “follower” of Sajeonogi. 

Here’s the explanation.  When the blog was set up, I had a choice of allowing anyone to make comments or only allowing “followers” to make comments.  My friend Jesse, who knows about these things, said if anyone is allowed to make anonymous comments, the blog would attract obscene and obnoxious replies.  He advised me to allow only followers who had registered to voice their opinions.  

Unfortunately, it is not all that easy to become a follower, as some of you may have discovered.  I asked my other friend Jeremy (yes, I have two) to give me the step-by-step instructions on how to do it.  I think it is amazingly complicated, and I’m pretty sure I couldn’t do it, but here’s what Jeremy wrote:

1.  Log onto:   https://accounts.google.com/

2.  Click the “Sign up” button on the corner.  Or cut and copy this address:  https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?continue=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.google.com%2FManageAccount

 3.  Fill out the appropriate information.  You will get a new email account from gmail.  This is a must.  You won’t have to use the email account but you will need it to get a handle.

4.  Click next on all steps to move forward.

5.  Once complete, go to Roy’s Blog.  http://poorroy.blogspot.com/.  Then click “Sign In” in the top right hand corner. 

6. Clicking on the Sign-in button will move you to the Google page where you need to sign in with the log-in you just created.

7. This will continue you to the “Blogger” page.  You need to scroll down and click “Continue to Blog.”

8. Now go back to Roy’s blog, and you should see your new gmail address up top.

9.  You now can post!

We’ll see.