Blogging

So while I'm in the mood to wax lyrical, the other day I was watching an episode of 'House' (I love it!) and they were treating a woman who avidly blogged, she wrote about everything and anything that happened to her... the doctors read her blog, and she blogged about her doctors, she blogged when she had an audience with her boyfriend and blogged about whether to have an operation or not...

It got me to thinking the other day (while I was on the bus on the way home!) about where we draw the line with electronic conversation and what we share on Blogs and Facebook. Blogs are a great way to keep a lot of people up to date all at once.. Facebook is good for keeping in touch with some people I know I would lose track of otherwise...

Yet, doesn't it trivialise the events in our lives when they are reduced to Facebook status??! At what point do we draw the line and say that if we want communication with people we need to speak to them and be spoken to in return. Friendship and Communication is two-sided, you give something and you get something back.

So, I'm still here, I'm still blogging. I'm still hoping that someone is enjoying reading and keeping up with the things I'm up to! I'm still on Facebook, still updating my status.

And yet... when big things happen, it's those who are close to me, those who invite me over to talk, those who come out with me for a meal, those who open dialogue and show an interest in me - those I call my friends.

Those people are the ones who earn the privelidge to share the sensational as well as the mundane parts of my life.