While I, on the other hand, have made several friends that way. (Including cdybedahl even if it wasn't through a proper blog we met.) Some of them, I've met in real too, some I might meet, and some I won't ever meet except as text on a web page - but I still consider them friends. And I still know them, sometimes better than I know some "real" friends, because of this regular small talk that is blogging. (Small talk of this kind is not always interesting for strangers - what do you care that I didn't go riding cross country today? - but it's a way of keeping in touch, and keeping the new friends you make from your more interesting posts. :-)
I see LJ as a huge party. People stand in groups talking, and you walk around listening. Sometimes, you stop and talk to some friends - but they might have other friends there too. Soon, you find some of those friends interesting, and later, you might stop by one of them too, and join that conversation. Or that person over in <insert random hobby or interest group> - [s]he might also be interesting enough to start talking to, even if there's no mutual acquaintance to introduce you. And the great thing with this whole internet thingy is that we can do this. We can find people on the other side of the earth and make friends. And I think it's fantastic.
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Date: 2009-06-17 08:04 pm (UTC)I see LJ as a huge party. People stand in groups talking, and you walk around listening. Sometimes, you stop and talk to some friends - but they might have other friends there too. Soon, you find some of those friends interesting, and later, you might stop by one of them too, and join that conversation. Or that person over in <insert random hobby or interest group> - [s]he might also be interesting enough to start talking to, even if there's no mutual acquaintance to introduce you. And the great thing with this whole internet thingy is that we can do this. We can find people on the other side of the earth and make friends. And I think it's fantastic.