Blogging ins and outs
There are two things I have figured out since getting into the whole E/N scene and eventually the blogging community (E/N died like 2 years ago):
1. Everybody knows everything about you from your weblog.
2. You know nothing about anybody else if they don't have a weblog.
It is really sad when you think about. My life revolves around the computer so much that if any of my friends are not online like me, I will probably never talk to them. I will run into a old friend once in a while and they will say something to the effect of, "I was Tramp Bear too!" or "I was Sir Lancelot too!" or even "I didn't know you just had a birthday". Then it takes a second for me to remember when I posted about that (because I can't remember my own birthday sometimes).
Then I go to ask them what is up in their lives and the usual blurb of "nothing" comes dripping out of their mouths. You mean to tell me for the past few months of not seeing you, you have just experienced nothingness. It takes Buddhist monks a lifetime to experience that and you have been doing it for the period since our last encounter. Bullshit! This is a reason I keep a weblog in the first place. Even though nothing really happens, you can still talk about nothing. Isn't that what made Seinfield famous?
And for these reasons I want everyone out there to start their own weblog/journal. It will make you more of a complete person, increase you ability to type and speak well, and when it comes time to conversate with one of your fellow bloggers....you will have something to talk about. Worried that your site will look dumb because you are the only one talking on there...invite a friend to double the fun. Need help starting one...I can help (for a small fee). Just start one so that I can read about your life, because you sure as hell can't talk about it well.