I appreciate and enjoy my blog friends. That having been said, is it kind of crazy to develop some form of "friendship" with people you've never seen and probably never will? I'm just asking.
I'm the sort of person who has very, very few friends. And that's probably for good reason. As much as I'd like to have confidence that people are, at their core, good, I'm not convinced. I guess, as L.C. once said, I have faith but I need proof.
It's odd, I think, that Mr. Misanthrope is so involved with posting on other bloggers' pages and so interested in knowing what other people are doing and thinking. Again, theses are people I don't really know. You know. You, you're the one...in real life, you could be a Republican preacher. You could be deeply religious and deeply offended by my atheist's perspective.
Why do I visit you? Why do you visit me? What's the point? Why do I really, truly care when I read that a blogger friend's husband is very ill or that her mother is sick or that another blogger's wife has lost her job? What does it matter to you if I lose a client or that I'm feeling down?
I think social networking sites are revealing some things about human nature that I did not know were there. And I don't know just what things are being revealed. Just something different from what I'm used to.
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