Blogs

Since I started a blog, I've wondered why people have blogs, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etcetera, and why we enjoy reading them so much.

I think we make blogs and "etcetera" so that we don't feel quite so alone. You like dogs? Wow, so do I! Let's be Facebook friends! Your favorite color is purple? Me too! We can follow each other on Twitter! It's all about making general connections.

With online communication websites, it's easy to make friends. Click, done. You can live in France and have your best MySpace buddy live in Australia.

But is the ever-growing technology good for our need for human interaction?

I'm not prejudice against electronics. I can't live without my cell phone and I love my computer just as much as the next person. But a social butterfly such as myself needs to socialize with real people. Call me crazy, but I need face-to-face socialization with my friends. With all this new technology, we've already nearby stopped reading newspapers, let alone sent the hand-written (yes, I said hand written) snail-mail. More people are clicking "Inbox" than they are unlocking their P.O. box.

I'm not saying go out and dump your computers, I'm just saying out of all the things your parents said, this is one thing they were right about. We can still have e-mails, but not everything you get your mailbox isn't junk mail.

Forever,
MoMo