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I haven't updated my blog in a couple days, and I am finding myself missing it. I want to write but find that if I can't think of something interesting or really intellectual, I don't want to waste the space. The only other site I post writing on is my Deviantart.com page where I put my art, so maybe I'm used to thinking I can only put my strong, edited work up online. Silly really, this is just a blog.

I wish more of my friends would keep a blog. I am all for social networking, and being in touch by text message or phone call, but it really isn't as informative as sitting down to chat. Now SOME PEOPLE will say that sitting down for a chat is the best way to connect, but I say, though it is the best, by no means should you limit yourself to this method in a world now designed to allow futher connectivity to your friends. I have a friend in particular who is so busy working multiple jobs, I haven't had a chance to actually see him for very long, in a while. Now, the odd text message helps combat this problem, and facebook would surely alert me to any changes great enough to warrant an update, but not to warrant a personal phone call, but it's still lacking.

The blog is a place to have a one sided chat with a person, usually on a topic that they have invested interest and thought into. I feel that people reading my blog may get to know me just a little better, hearing my side of a conversation that may not otherwise come up in conversation. To be honest, I'm not the kind of person to share every little opinion I have, especially with people I have found cannot deal with disagreeing opinions well. So the blog acts as a way for people to hear my inner thoughts, and connect with me in a new kind of technological way. It provides the intimacy of thought-sharing, without the need to spend time and money getting together to chat. I am not saying it's better, just saying it's realistic to admit we don't all have the time or money, despite having the desire to stay close friends.

Hopefully soon I'll be able to write another blog with some topical opinion developed recently in my life, and I will share it with the few people who happen to watch this blog. Somehow I still don't feel like I'm writing exclusively for them, and realize anyone could be picking this page up. I just wish more of my friends would share themselves in the same way, so I could know what they're thinking on a larger scale. I like being able to comment in little ways, on the big things people have to say.

Also a blog is a great way to gauge someone's psyche, and determine their likelihood to survive the trauma of some crazy, unexplained plague sweeping across nations bringing the dead back to life to feed on the living.