This excellent post about blogging is by Malakeas , an amazing human being and a wonderful friend of mine in Blogland. Bless xxx
@ 2009-08-08 – 00:00:05
Blogland can be a scary place for many reasons. And yet, it can be wonderfully amazing as well.
I have found it larger than life when interacting with others here online. However, once I finally met a few folks from Blog thereby attaching a face and a 'real' name to a blog persona, their 'larger than life' stature was reduced to a manageable size and I could relax and enjoy them even more.
Does that make sense?
For the ones I have met (and there are some I have not but still feel this way), I read their stories, posts, comments and it is like interacting with a dear friend almost instantaneously. The only thing missing is the whistle of the kettle to make some tea/coffee, the crunch of a cookie or a muffin that is shared between friends at the kitchen table as they blather on about this and that.
Oh there would be plenty of time for wine and a Mala home-cooked meal so no worries there!
The point is that people can be sussed out and understood quickly by the posts they write and the comments they make, so if it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck, then it probably is a duck if you know what I mean.
Meeting bloggers in the flesh makes it all come together in my mind's eye.
Ta.
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