Sometimes I think all this web 2.0 is merely universal longing for community. Is the blogosphere a confession that we have failed to form community where real arms could hold us, real hands might touch us, real laughter and sobs would fill our ears? People and community can be so messy. So we go digital to find a place safe for us weirdos and geeks? Is that it? I sometimes wonder.
You always make me think - thanks for the reflective posting. You made some space for me to "say" what I had been thinking.
Adem
· 3 years ago
Hey, cheers for popping around my blog. I used to know a lot about the way the world was going, well I thought I did, I used to be a genius in a community of idiots, I was like Neo from the Matrix, I was indispensible.
Things change quickly now and there's too much information for me to take in, and now I am one of the idiots, one of the uninformed, one of the herd.
I should know more, I could know more, but why try? I've left it to others, and now I wallow in mediocrity.
litlove
· 3 years ago
I know nothing about the technology but I love to blog. And the fact that we are all sharing our comments and listening to each others opinions shows that we do have a real community here, and we should be proud of it.
Mrs Lifecruiser
· 3 years ago
I started to write an answer on this post, but got caught up so much in the subject that my comment was too long. Maybe I'll even will write an own post responding to this. I'll be back in that case....
For now I just say: I'm an elite weird freak geek *lol*
Napfisk
· 3 years ago
As a result of all your kind and equally fascinating comments, I've edited the post (ever so) slightly to make sure the community issue came across somewhat more.
Your posts and comments reflect exactly that sense of sharing and exchange that I see as a wonderfully promising upside of blogging.
Never forget the real people around you, though. Go give them hugs.
Robert Scoble
· 3 years ago
Good points! I don't see it as elite, but rather the passionate ones. By the way, every community has this problem (politics had it with Howard Dean, for instance). The passionate ones forget how to talk with the unpassionate ones.
Academics even go further: they make up their own weird langauge so they can talk with other passionate people about specific topics.
It is the passionate ones that drive society, though.
Mrs Lifecruiser
· 3 years ago
The comment went "overboard" and so seems my post have done too, it's floating around now....*lol*
K
· 3 years ago
I've been having the same experiance with my friends. This week my blog was added to the Glam Network, a fashion webpage. Finally it's something that my friends understand because they see my headshot there and in their mind, it's not blogging - I'm a writer. It's a medium that the mainstream can understand, if only in that context.
Nice Post :D
K
Jannie Sue "Funster"
· 1 year ago
Glad to have found your blog. My Alexa SEO has gone from 6,076,218 to 326,528 in less than 3 months because I've been workin' the heck outta it! AND having a total blast while "meeting" the nicest people.
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You always make me think - thanks for the reflective posting. You made some space for me to "say" what I had been thinking.
Things change quickly now and there's too much information for me to take in, and now I am one of the idiots, one of the uninformed, one of the herd.
I should know more, I could know more, but why try? I've left it to others, and now I wallow in mediocrity.
For now I just say: I'm an elite weird freak geek *lol*
Your posts and comments reflect exactly that sense of sharing and exchange that I see as a wonderfully promising upside of blogging.
Never forget the real people around you, though. Go give them hugs.
Academics even go further: they make up their own weird langauge so they can talk with other passionate people about specific topics.
It is the passionate ones that drive society, though.
Nice Post :D
K
Blog on, All !!
--Jannie