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Blogging
Can Turn Faceless Strangers into Close
Friends
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by:
Jesse S. Somer
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I’ve
been searching the Internet for blogging sites for a fair while now and
recently I came across a whole blogging community, which has grabbed my
interest greatly. It’s called Joe User and it’s a site that many
bloggers all around the globe are partaking in. It is very well
organized into categories such as Best Articles, Newest blog entries,
Top blogging sites, New sites and Most hit-on bloggers. The blogs range
from very personal life introspection to serious analysis of current
affairs in the media.
The aspect that has appealed to me the most is the very personal type
of blogging community. Many people are talking about their feelings and
issues about life with people that technically they have never met face
to face. However, the type of camaraderie I’ve ‘witnessed’ as a
bystander has truly amazed me. These people talk to each other as
though they are extremely close friends, and the strange thing is I
think this is the reality.
When one person has something important happen to them in their life,
up to 100 or more comments will arrive under their blog entry with
advice and information as well as emotional support from their blogging
friends. Of course there are some differences in opinion, but the
general perspective seems to be one of a positive approach to humanity.
People are really spilling out their souls to each other, and then
accepting criticism as well as discussing possible solutions to
problems. I just find this to be truly inspirational, a human community
or ‘tribe’ that has formed simply because of the Internet’s existence.
These people must spend a lot of time communicating with each other.
Some are writing new entries everyday, as well as articles and
conversations. The conversations usually happen in the ‘comments’
section where one can see that these people often stay up into the late
hours of the morning, blogging to each other back and forth. The amount
of love shared by these arbitrary acquaintances is astounding. One
could perceive the whole experience as a form of therapy but I think it
is much more than that. I believe this is a sign of a revolution. The
coming of the New Human Tribe has begun.
If random bloggers can evolve into a community of people who trust,
respect, and are intimate and united with each other this says a lot
for the human condition. People are tired of the segregated, separatist
reality of countries, cultures, races and religions. These group
blogging sites, or collective on-line journals as I now like to think
of them, are symbolic of the future connectedness of all of humanity.
It may take a hundred years, or a thousand, or maybe only fifty, but it
definitely looks like there’s hope yet for the warring, greedy humans.
One day we all may be ‘one’ again in our minds as well as our physical
forms.
About the Author
Jesse S. Somer
M6.Net
http://www.m6.net
Jesse S. Somer is a human who is working to help the New Human Tribe
come together by means of the Internet communicative process.
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