DEGREES OF BLOGGING
This comes from my friend, Julie's blog:
"Ever heard of the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon? Where every actor can be linked through their career to Kevin Bacon? I'm convinced that this phenomenon also applies to the blogging world. Take any random persons blog and after clicking on a few links of family and friends, you'll find someone that you've known in your past.
The bad thing about this is it feels very stalk-ish. Though I feel vulnerable doing this, I'm exposing some of my blogging faux pas anyway! For example, I've happened to click on someone I know off of my sisters blog, which lead to someone else (I didn't know very well, I'm embarrassed to say) and found my back door neighbor's blog. Seriously.
Do I make a comment and admit how I found them? Check in once in a while and not say anything? Anonymously complain that their weeds are creeping to our side of the fence:) Joking.
Once I happened to comment to my husband about a really funny post I'd read that day. He asked me who it was and I had to admit that it was a kid I went to high school with that was a few years younger than me. I got that stare--the "What are you really doing at 6:30 in the morning when I think you're just checking your emails" look. Or, it could have been the "Wow, I married a stalker" look."
The way I look at it is if the person has not made their blog private, then I am invited. After all, people have met their spouses online...why can't we make acquaintances and maybe even good friends? I trust that my friends have friends that I would like too, so I invite myself to investigate the possibility. I have commented on people's blogs who probably barely remembered I was alive and we are chums now. So, I agree....we are all curious and want be voyeurs in the most virtuous sense of the word. If we haven't privatized our blogs, then we are inviting anyone interested enough to peek into our worlds!!! What do you think?
8 comments:
Chels, you are so right. I find someone almost nightly that I either know, or want to know:) It is so funny and TOdd absolutely hates the blogging thing, BUT I do catch him every now and then, because I can hear the music from peoples blog that are connected to mine. hahaha
Damn strait! We're all peeping toms at heart! I'll admitt it!
Pass it on...its so true. Thanks for letting me still your Jack Bauer picture.
Kevin checks mine when he gets home, too! All of a sudden, their wives have a much more eventful social life (not that I didn't go out clubbing and stuff all of the time before blogging)
It was Lara, BUT, I have had a couple people ask me if Carlie was in town. So, I will let people guess who it is, and believe that it was Carlie.
I am looking right now.......Kevin
how funny, i thought it was only me stalking others
Chels, you are hysterical! Who knew we would be able to get to know our "real" children on the internet? I love you...
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