A recent article in some journal I would normally never read they reported Blogging linked to loneliness. They did a great job making me click on their headline. The guy is good. He even got a link.
But he totally misses parts of the equation. He starts off with a flawed argument about teenagers. And teenagers are going to do their own thing no matter how we attempt to slap a label on them. Heck, I know I would, and I did at that age.
Maybe parts of the blogosphere are driven by a need to ‘send an SOS’ to the world. But deep down I think it’s part of who we are. A large subgroup of our society really wants to share stories and recapture the concepts of community that we lack in our postmodern world.
I don’t think there are enough stories yet. This journey towards making blogging more mainstream isn’t over yet. It’s just beginning. In the time of old storytellers we could hear stories…now they have disappeared, so there are lots of untold stories…
Originally posted on February 13, 2007 @ 7:59 am
Preposterous. Blogging is social. Internet is social. So the kids should get out and move, sure, but they have more social interactions every bloody day than I did. MSN, MySpace, AIM or whatever.
Linkbait.
No joke. And it worked.
We’ll take em all… I agree and talked about it earlier as well on our blog — Bloggers are generally NOT lonely people and infact are some of the most social people I know… in truth bloggers rarely ever shut up…
Mouseover my link and see my domain is quite appropriate — lonelybloggers.com – a dating site for lonely bloggers…
Nice site btw. :)
Thanks, wish Chris P had designed it for us though … He was too busy with other clients at the time — Love 9:01 guys, thanks for the good reads every day..
I totally agree with Thord. Blogging is one of the most social activities. I have met the whole crew here at 901 through blogging.
I think there’s actually something to this, although I’m sure I’ve read it somewhere before, but think about it, sure, blogging is social itself, but it does tend to isolate you to some extent from socializing face to face with people, particularly if you live at the arse end of the earth like I do. I’ve long given up trying to explain to people what I do for a living, and when you live in an area with a large blue collar workforce it does make it difficult to meet new people, after all, no one with 30kms of where I live actually blogs nor shares my interest, I’ve met one guy 50kms down the road…flip side though is if I lived in NY I’d be making more friends than I’d know what to do with :-)
To many friends is a good thing.