ON BLOGGING and such
Why do some of us feel a need to write a blog? Ready to share privat thoughts and happenings online, things you wouldn´t tell just any (half)stranger in real life? I don´t know! But I have some wild guesses:
Inside every blogger there´s this tiny little dream of being a journalist or a writer. And there´s spare time that needs to be filled. There might also be this element of letting "it all" out - one could call it the therapeutic element. Put words on feelings. Categorize them and make it easier to move on. The blogger loves to write down his or her thoughts or visualize them. There ´s also this wish, that someone will read what you write and like it, find it therapeutic, helpful in some way, amusing or reinforcing.... That´s, usually, why people read blogs.
I´m curious about the future of today´s society when it comes to keeping contact: how we meet, how we interact, how we communicate. Today, you skype, you text, sometimes you phone, you post pictures in social media of your home, your dear ones, your pets, and tell everyone what you ´re doing, how you´re feeling, what you´re thinking. In the old days, some ten years ago (!), you would have made a visit.
The other day my son said to me as he drove me to town: "I wonder what this town will look like in 200 years?" And I wonder, how we will interact with each other in 200 years....?



