A funny thing happened on the way to the World Wide Web....
With blogs, MySpace, Facebook, forums, chatrooms, whatever I have realized that soon everyone on Earth will know each other. One way or another. Probably not in real life, but as online "friends".
I mean, the first thing that I noticed with Facebook was that I have friends that I know through completely different channels that know each other. I hadn't been signed up for even one whole day when a childhood neighbor found me....and three days later I realized that a high school acquaintence had him on her friends list too. Next, one of my closest friends here in Vic showed up on yet another high school buddy's list. Seriously? How is it possible that they even know each other?? Oh right, it's a small world.
Same thing happened on my Pender weekend. I got there and found that friends of friends were people I already knew through other friends. And if I didn't know them, they knew other friends. But I wasn't surprised. Why? Because I'd seen them all as friends on each other's Facebook pages. It's all so bloody complicated.
Then my Mom joins Facebook. And she's friends with my friends. In fact, she's friends with people that I remember but haven't bothered to add as friends. Then she starts reading my blog...which I appreciate....cuz that way I know at least someone is reading my drivell. But what got me thinking about writing this particular blog is the fact that she actually had an online "argument" with someone else posting on someone else's blog that she found through mine.
Too funny.
I haven't even had the opportunity to meet Duv in person....but sure enough, the internet is also a small world and even my Mom has managed to make contact and start a debate regarding something Duv posted about.
Maybe no one else sees what I'm saying....but I figure if my Mom and I are out there discovering stuff, then basically everyone must be encountering the same situations. How many "online-only friends" do you have? How many people do you feel like you really know just because you read their random thoughts each day? Do you think you might actually meet and become "real friends" with these folks? How have you made it this far not realizing that people you know already know each other? How many more of these "small world" relationships exist that you have yet to discover?
I guess I didn't have anything else to think about today, so this really got my brain in motion.
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3 comments:
totally true.
Definitely true! We were both surprised to see the other knew Ash, right?
As far as reading someone's blog and feeling like you know them, definitely. I was reading a blog written by a 30 year old, Canadian womans struggle with skin cancer. She recently died and when I read her husband's update, I cried. I never met this woman, but her struggle and her death affected me.
There's a 6 degrees of seperation group on facebook, I think the creator has linked random people by 6 degrees. Crazy.
I talk to you more than I talk to my "in person" friends. I feel like we should go for a beer or something...but what if it were weird hee hee.
PS...I heart it when people have "virtual arguments" on my blog ;)
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