Fiona McCann
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Secret sharing
The fundamental dichotomy of so-called blogging is this. On the one hand, we want our secrets to be hush hush. Many times we seek to hide our identities, at least so that we cannot be easily tracked or stalked by someone unsavoury, should they take a notion to do so. Yet we have an overwhelming desire to share with the world, otherwise why else would we post ONLINE? In wanting to share, we want to get feedback. I'm presuming this because I know I do. Perhaps some of you dun care whether anyone reads it or makes note of you or not--but then why be on the INTERNET? You could easily keep a paper journal or just a note file on your hard drive. All the journaling sites I know specifically have provision for receiving comments. Some sites make it so difficult that you have to jump through hoops in order to make a responce. Some are too easy and get a lot of spam. But no matter what, it is always nice to know that someone somewhere has taken the time to read what you said and tell you how you have affected them. When it is your friends who are involved, replies become more problematic. I personally feel that when my close friends make entries, that it is my responsibility as their friend to eventually take a look and acknowledge it in some way. Perhaps this willna happen every single time, depending upon how often they post or how busy or depressed I am. :-p To not do so is to say to my friend, you are not that important to me. I have better things to do than to bother with your thoughts and opinions or whatever it is you feel like sharing. I have been told I take the internet too seriously. But to me, the people you count as friends on the net are ever bit as important as people in your real life, and sometimes even more so. Hand in hand with this ideal is the fact that if I share something with you that I feel you specifically might enjoy, and you refuse to consider it, then you are telling me you dun respect my judgement. It's like giving someone a treasured book for their birthday and having them toss it in the garbage without even looking at it. It's a bit of a slap in the face. There are some people whom I feel affection for who are completely different from me in tastes and abilities and interests. Yet because I care for them, I make an effort to familiarise myself with some of what they enjoy. The bible says it is more blessed to give than to receive, but once in awhile 'tis nice to be able to receive as well. |
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