Thursday, January 12, 2012

Lamenting In The Void Of Friendless Blogs .....

Blogs... I have a list of the ones that I like to follow.... but unfortunately not enough of my friends write on a blog... only a few. Some people like to tweet because they have a Twitter account. And that's cool because I get a little bit of a snip of their day... when they are far away. Not everyone is as prolific as me when it comes to writing and I understand that.... (remember I do this as much for me as anything)... I do write as often as I do because it is a good discipline, and for someone who is as flighty as I am, discipline is always good. For some, blogging is a good outlet for their desire to write.... for some, writing is an agony and tweeting works better. Still there are social sites like Facebook. For people using that venue, friends seem to be easy... I have a Facebook account but I hardly ever use it. Mostly I go in there to play games and even that has lately bored me to tears (I also keep an eye on the Daughters who both have Facebook accounts).  So back I come to this place.

The sad thing is that each morning I look forward to hearing about what my friends are up to.... I am sadly let down. (Except for the Spindle Princess whose pretty good and keeping people up on what she's doing with short snappy Tweets!)  But the rest of those who I love to hear from seem to not want to have an online life. I do have a cousin who posts interesting things on the family website... but that's it. Not my sister... not my sister-in-law, not my brother-in-laws or anyone in my family. And absolutely none of my close friends blog, tweet, or stay on Facebook.... I am virtually friendless in this world of computer technology. It is really quite unfair.  Most of the blogs to the left are blogs of perfect strangers... Except for As The Whorl Spins and Yawnkiss, It Was Fun I Liked It, I am in a void of strangers. Even the Daughters, for whom I had great hopes, have fallen by the wayside and post a blog about once a year and actually even that has fallen off.

So each morning I get up and I sit down here at my computer... I sit staring at the screen in the hopes that someone will surprise me and send me an email to tell me that they have begun a new blog or have set up a Twitter account.... or have joined Facebook.... all in vain.....

sigh!

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