Monday, February 8, 2010

Craving the Personal

The internet is such a great thing!  It gives you so much information at your fingertips.  Helping my kids with homework is a totally different thing than it used to be when I was a kid.  The internet also gets you the opportunity to connect and reconnect with people that you normally wouldn't get to contact. 

I have found that the internet also gives people the opportunity to hide behind the impersonal.  There are so many times that I receive a message online, email, or text and I wish that I could just talk to that person by phone or in person.  I am craving the personal in an impersonal world. 

Because of that I've decided to take a break from online social networking sites.  I have decided to continue the blog because no one reads it...and it feels more like a journal to myself than a form of online communication.  When I get the urge to contact someone, I'm going to make a phone call and see if I can start the chain of personal contact that I crave and see if it will come back to me...

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