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I’ve been searching the Internet for blogging sites for a fair
while now and recently I came across a whole blogging community,
which has grabbed my interest greatly. It’s called Joe User and
it’s a site that many bloggers all around the globe are
partaking in. It is very well organized into categories such as
Best Articles, Newest blog entries, Top blogging sites, New
sites and Most hit-on bloggers. The blogs range from very
personal life introspection to serious analysis of current
affairs in the media.
The aspect that has appealed to me the most is the very personal
type of blogging community. Many people are talking about their
feelings and issues about life with people that technically they
have never met face to face. However, the type of camaraderie
I’ve ‘witnessed’ as a bystander has truly amazed me. These
people talk to each other as though they are extremely close
friends, and the strange thing is I think this is the reality.
When one person has something important happen to them in their
life, up to 100 or more comments will arrive under their blog
entry with advice and information as well as emotional support
from their blogging friends. Of course there are some
differences in opinion, but the general perspective seems to be
one of a positive approach to humanity. People are really
spilling out their souls to each other, and then accepting
criticism as well as discussing possible solutions to problems.
I just find this to be truly inspirational, a human community or
‘tribe’ that has formed simply because of the Internet’s
existence.
These people must spend a lot of time communicating with each
other. Some are writing new entries everyday, as well as
articles and conversations. The conversations usually happen in
the ‘comments’ section where one can see that these people often
stay up into the late hours of the morning, blogging to each
other back and forth. The amount of love shared by these
arbitrary acquaintances is astounding. One could perceive the
whole experience as a form of therapy but I think it is much
more than that. I believe this is a sign of a revolution. The
coming of the New Human Tribe has begun.
If random bloggers can evolve into a community of people who
trust, respect, and are intimate and united with each other this
says a lot for the human condition. People are tired of the
segregated, separatist reality of countries, cultures, races and
religions. These group blogging sites, or collective on-line
journals as I now like to think of them, are symbolic of the
future connectedness of all of humanity. It may take a hundred
years, or a thousand, or maybe only fifty, but it definitely
looks like there’s hope yet for the warring, greedy humans. One
day we all may be ‘one’ again in our minds as well as our
physical forms.
About the author:
Jesse S. Somer M6.Net http://www.m6.net Jesse S. Somer is a
human who is working to help the New Human Tribe come together
by means of the Internet communicative process.
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