Jumping On The Bandwagon...

I have a friend who, when you tell him something about you or your life, often says: "I know, I read your blog!" As most of our friends do not actually have blogs, I can only assume this is a commentary on the emergence of blogging as a way of communicating. Like AOL's Instant Messenger, blogging seems to have revolutionized the art of bringing people even more intimately into each other's lives. This phenomenon is odd to me because while I can follow the blogs of friends from high school, I do not have to actually speak to them. They don't have to know that I follow their lives in any way. This technological intimacy has brought me closer to their lives, but not necessarily closer to THEM. It's kind of like watching a reality TV show, except that it actually is reality.

All that said...

I have jumped on the bandwagon!

I am not for a minute assuming that people have been anxiously waiting to hear my thoughts on...well, anything, but I like the idea of community and of everyone being in the mix. And anyone who knows me knows that I like to be in the mix : ) So I'm jumping on!