Blog World

You hear a lot about all the weirdoes who live in the vast reaches of anonymous cyberspace.

And then, there are the bloggers.

We spend our days posting our deepest thoughts and our most nagging concerns. We tell stories about our most comical screw ups. We share our favorite jokes and comics and ask each other way-too-personal questions considering we’ve never met. Those with talent post wonderful examples of their creative writing skills and those of us with less talent pretend we’re qualified to critique their work by attaching our trivial comments.

We form little communities of cyber friends. We have “private” jokes we take from one blog to another, knowing only “insiders” will catch on. We discuss topics ranging from our religious beliefs to our sex lives, with total strangers, and somehow that does not seem altogether bizarre.

I’ve had my blog for only about a month now. When I started, I included NO personal information. My posts were vague and general. I wanted to protect my anonymity. After all, there are a lot of weirdoes out there in cyberspace. I’m much more open in my blog now, because I’ve learned something as I’ve gotten to know folks in this little community. There really ARE a lot of weirdoes out here…and I’m one of them! But for the most part, we’re surprisingly supportive of each other’s strange idiosyncrasies.

I kind of like it here.