John sent me this email. Scary stuff:
I was talking to this woman last night whose name, believe it or not, is Happy, and she was telling me that she’s addicted to blogs. By blogs she didn’t mean where people with some levels of expertise discuss ideas. She meant she read online journals. You know: “Woke up with a headache today at 9:20. Went out to the kitchen and stubbed my toe. Had a glass of Ovaltine and felt better.”
She explained that she realized it was absurd to read material like this, but that she liked “continuity.” She also said she was lonely.
As for the last point, she told me that on these blogs people post photos of themselves and their friends and announce upcoming events they will experience together. Happy evidently regularly goes to parties and other functions of strangers whose blogs she reads. At these gatherings she knows so much about the people there she has to pretend otherwise when they start talking to her about their lives.
Is this common today? To not only be a Voyeur Lurker, but also to try to infiltrate the “party”?
It gets me thinking that a really good con artist could have a field day with some of these bloggers where their lives and personalities are divulged online.
Just to be clear, I am not going anywhere or doing anything interesting for the foreseeable future. Also, I do not expect to be at home during this same period.
One Comment
What do these Blogger do give out their phone numbers and street address? Yeesh. I mean it’s fine to say “I stubbed my toe and I’m onto my first morning coffee etc” but it’s another to give out your street address cell number, place of employment etc which I’ve never done on my Blog. That’s going a bit to far.
J talks a lot about his job and we his regular readers all know how he feels about it. We all know where he works. There are only so many of those places in Denver. It wouldn’t be hard to track him down. Me neither if anyone wanted to follow me. “Hey there's that Blogger with the gimped up back and funny gait to his walk.”
That’s why I have a reliable stat counter. I check every day on the visitors map and I never see visitors from Edmonton or the surrounding area. If I received hits from in the city here etc on a frequent basses, especially from the same IP address, I’d get a bit worried. I did get a visitor from Calgary the other day.
I mean if bloggers want to meet people the daily blog isn’t the way to go about it. That’s why we have Facebook.
Thanks for the interesting read. Gives me something to think about. I got to go now, I have a headache and my coffee is getting cold.