Has Wayne gone completely off the deep end this time?
Well, it was to be expected sooner or later, you suppose.
In fact, the idea is not as outlandish as it appears at first, or to provide a bit more leeway, the second or sixteenth glance.
Blogs do help create, nurture, and build internet families.
There now, was that so hard?
In the modern world, you hear every day that people are beoming more disconnected from their neighbours.
No one knows anyone around them, except for a small coterie of friends, or perhaps some work and business associates. In the past, communities were more stable, over longer periods of time. People had time to know and develop close ties with the people around them.
Today's fast paced world has made those bygone days a distant and fading memory.
Like some faded black and white or sepia tinted photograph from a long ago time, the days of knowing all of your neighbours, their children, and even their cousins twice removed, are over.
Or are they?
The internet has created a new and exciting medium for developing friendships, and even extended family. The bloggers, as always, are on the forefront of the new family building revolution.
Distant bloggers are often brought together by an interest in topics, often thought arcane and on the very edges of reason, by members of the mainstream. Some blogging connections are developed from more traditional roots like business, politics, law, technology, sports, and the various creative hobbies.
Blogging communities have sprung up, like dandelions on the front lawn, on a warm spring afternoon.
Like minded bloggers communicate with one another, first by by commenters and by e-mails. Later, the friendship passes to the telephone and to live and in person meetings.
Over time, these meetings and discussions blossom into more than simple friendships. Marriages, business partnerships, and yes...extended families are often the direct result of maintaining a blog.
Bloggers have become one of the new family and relationship paradigms of the Twenty-First Century. While other forms of community building have occurred on the internet, few achieve virtual family status as quickly as do like minded bloggers.
Yes, Virginia, blogs do build families.
Real closeknit blogging families too!
