Over the past few years, with the rise of Blogs, MySpace, Facebook(surprisingly enough) and any other Wabba, Gongo, and other not-quite-acronym, not-quite-in-the-dictionary coined web trends; the split between what people say and what people blog has become so large that they can say the most honest and tactless things about someone and have a truly friendly conversation with them afterwards. I'm not really sure what caused it, or exactly what it means.
I could take a stab:
Is it possible people have gotten to the point where they are so truly open with themselves and other people that they take in these honest moments as true oppurtunities to change and smoothly work things out? Well, I just left a class where a student told the professor, I was offended by the homework assignment so I chose not to do it. So obviously, people aren't able to say they "just weren't able to get to their homework," so why would they be able to come to terms with true harsh critcisms.
Is it possible that people have come to the point where they can honestly say: "we're going to agree to disagree here," that can't be true because outside of the Student Union I witnessed around 50 people openly shouting, arguing and discussing Women's right to have abortions.
While doing research about how other people felt about this I found that some people are warning new bloggers of the eternalness of the blog, and according to John M. Grohol, Psy.D. of PsychCentral.com, "writers need to understand the consequences of such writing up front, and edit as they go (or go back later to edit accordingly)." My first response would be to say that John obviously doesn't write in a blog, or read them often, however PsychCentral is all in all a scientific blog, so thats out the window, it must be the new internet age, molding these middle school, high school, and college student age bloggers into true "say-what-you-think," so write-what-you-think kind of mentalities. (an age that John obviously doesn't understand.) They don't care what they say, who reads it and how long it stays there. "That's me so deal with it."
Now, I'm trying to sound ahead of the times, but i've had a blog since January 2000, my first blog was registered with MyDearDiary.com, how very effeminate of me. I had that for about 2 years, even the title hints as to the traditional sense of a "diary" and how its "dear" or private to you. However this was not true, I would write poetry, post song lyrics, write indirect feelings about people then send them the link knowing they'll read it and prevent me from having to tell them how I really felt. It was amazing. Everyone started doing it.
Then once the blog developers realized what was going on, they started creating customizable layouts which led to livejournal, deadjournal, and then eventually to the killer of the blog, MySpace. All of which are leading to an eventual completely honest, opinion-based community sharing their feelings, thoughts and views a a group. Even to the point where private, vague, and anonymous postings are shunned upon and disregarded because people want to know who is sleeping with who, who likes them, who doesn't like them and who told them.
I however, have reached the point, (unfortunately a little later than some) where I'm creating a new type of blog, an almost professional blog where I can formally present my ideas, thoughts, and feelings in a formal, non-cathartic way that could even be regarded as news to some.
To whomever is reading this, could what you think be news? Yes. The majority of our country right now is affected by too many people that know too little about what is going on. So that inner voice that tells you, well someone else already thought of that, its probably not right. Put it out there. For example, just the other night on CNN I heard them holding a discussion about "Applebee's America: How Successful Political, Business, and Religious Leaders Connect with the New American Community ," a new book about how the internet is bringing people together, and how the political figures in the country, and they stated this on the show are now realizing that:
Believe it or not, the majority of people in America don't vote or feel connected to a party, they have some democratic views and some republican view and they want something new.
Well, I don't know about you but thats pretty much every single person in the country. Its called being a human being.
And the true honesty that we're seeing bleeding through the pages, and hyperlinks on these blogs are proof of it.
Can it be, or is it just me?
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