The Socioeconomicalisticness of Blogging

I've got lots of friends. At least my Christmas card list and email address book lead me to think so. And there are a bazillion blogs out there. So you would think that there would be some overlapping (e.g. that I would have lots of friends who blog). But apparently, in my world, it's a case of "Never the twain shall meet".

But that's not why I'm here today. I'm here to ask you if you've ever realized that the blog is a form of form letter. You know, those lazy people who send out the same letter to everyone because they are too lazy to write to each of their friends individually that little Timmy is captain of his soccer team and Aunt Mildred broke her hip again and here's a picture of the dog in front of the Christmas tree tightly swaddled in some red and white straight jacket made of yarn created during Thursday night Knitting Club.

The blog takes this laziness a step further by telling everyone, "OK, I'm not even going to send this letter to you - you come to me at blahbityblahblah.myblog.com"

I even had a friend today take it a step further by suggesting that I blog something for him (and he has his own dang blog!)

What does this say about society today? (Because you have to have some universal point to your blog entry, or else it won't engage the reading world at large). I don't know what it says, so I will just leave it up to you to comment about what YOU think it says, thereby perpetuating this "taking it a step further" thing.

So sue me. At least I brought the damn thing up. At least I blogged today.