Posted 12:34 AM by Luke
Yes, it has been more than two months since anything was last posted on my blog. And like 4 months before that. And, sorry to dissapoint folks, but this isn't gonna cool what cravings you might have for Luke-blogging (which I am sure have all died out by now - if you even find out that I actually posted this one - since it seems many of you have removed me from your lists as some sort of 21st-century punishment or something. Friend not behaving? Take him off you blog list, that'll show him. Riiiiiiiight.

Anywho, that leads into my sole purpose for posting this blog....to make fun of blogs. It seems the fresh, seemingly innocent trend of online journaling that started a few years ago and that I joyfully partook in earlier this year has become a phenomenon of epic proportions. My friends now have conversations about what they read in each other's blogs. Or they gossip about what they read in someone else's blog. There are veritable blog soap operas going around, for crying out loud! On one hand, I find it quite funny and can't help but laugh at the absurdity level that the whole online thing is reaching. On the other, I can't help but be a bit scared. Communication is now taking on all-time high levels of impersonality. We can substitute genuine time with a friend with simply reading their blog. It has all the flavors and idiosyncracies that they do, but it's in an easily packaged, non-threatening form. I can find out all about what's going on with Lapa without having to risk a real-time conversation and all the ups and downs that tend to come with.....face......to......face........friendship. GULP! I guess it scares me most because I know that it can suck me in just like anyone else, perhaps even more so. I sure do find it much easier to avoid conflict (and as a result, much joy and growth) by addressing people impersonally in the cyber world. I have to fight that all the time. Can I stand up for real relationships in this ever-strange, ever-alientating computer world? Can we? Sometimes Radiohead's paranoid view of an alienating, mechanized world where our souls become as numb as computers doesn't seem so far off. My Microsoft Outlook structures my day and tells me what to do..... But hey, this isn't some kind of Matrix theory where machines take over. It's a reality that Thom Yorke and the boys from Radiohead aren't really too far off on, I don't think, paranoid as they may be. Technology (among other things) is isolating when used without care. Just listen to OK Computer and you'll hear what they are so paranoid about!

But my point is not that blogs or any online communication are becoming horrible influences on our society in every way. They ARE fun and they DO provide a great relief (especially for us writer types) to just let thoughts out at the end of the day. And it IS funny that we all seem to think our lives are so interesting (myself very much included here) that EVERYONE MUST BE checking our blogs daily!.......right? Anyway, blogs are cool and all, but when they suddenly begin to replace quality time with someone, then count me out, WADAWAG! I'll be mappin on my d-lo instead.