Downside of Blogging

Okay Okay I might be a little on the old fashioned side when I say this, but I still like to talk to people face-to-face. Now you might go, "Nathan, I still talk to people face-to-face. What makes you old fashioned over the likes of me?" Well I'll explain.

With the advent of (insert catchy hip term here) generation, or otherwise kids that have no idea what the world was like before the internet...or at least youtube, there has seemed to be a steady decline of actually talking to friends in person. Sure you talk to friends all the time though I'm betting close to ninety percent of the time your not actually within miles of them and communicating is being achieved by modern technology. Things like text-messaging, instant messaging, e-mail, forums, social networking sites (i.e. Facebook) have distanted ourselves from actually seeing people we call 'friends'.

Though I degress from the title of this post. The downside of blogging in my eyes is that if I put a witty interesting story on my blog, The Kingston Journal, I feel like telling people about it...in person. I know this sort of defeats the purpose of the blog since its suppose to be like some sort of online journal thingy or whatever, but I don't find myself overly funny so the only thing that I have going for myself in everyday conversation is my somewhat witty stories that I post on my blog. The catch-22 is when I get into conversation with a friend about something interesting like...say the harassment of photographers, I'm not even done with my opening monologue when they say that they already read it on my blog. What are you suppose to say after that?! Well did you like what I wrote? Did I misspell anything this time? In my opinion it kind of kills the conversation. Which kills social interaction. Which drives people to just blog more and avoid seeing people in real life.

So if I'm around and start to rant about blogs, just say that you already read what I had to say and I'll just shut up and go back to checking my Facebook.