Blog Things?

I was asked, once, by my roommate why anyone would want a Facebook account, a Twitter or a Blog. I told her everyone wants to know everything about each other, plain and simple. She told me that wasn’t true, not everyone wants to know everything about another person. Especially if they like the person. I thought of the social world outside of computers and realized she was right. I tried to reason with myself and figure a better answer to tell her, that well, maybe everyone just wanted to be able to keep tabs on each other, check up on each other. But even then, the pool of reasoning seemed shallow. I doubted emotions had much to do with anything. Thinking about it now, I wonder if it is less about us each wanting to grab hold of each other’s information and more about us each individually trying to reach out to one another.

That is what I’m doing, isn’t it?