Do you find yourself doing it?
The excitement as you go to your computer and pull up your favorites list and checking multiple times a day to find if anyone has updated their journals or blogs, just hoping to catch a glimpse of what is going on in their life. Do you do it? Do you feel the emotions that they are going through as you read what is up there on that illuminated screen? Do you send them little comments with ::hugs:: and ::smiles::, do you do it too? Has the Internet taken away all your social skills? Do you feel as if you know someone just because you read their blog or journal despite the fact that they live thousands of miles away and you have never actually seen their face? I do. I consider them my friends, a couple of them I would confide the secrets of my heart to, and I have only ever typed messages on a screen too...I've never even heard their voice. I only have three or four people that I "know" from the Internet, but I do it...do you?

What happened to the days when we would call our friends or run over to see them when they are having a bad day, not just send them an e-mail with flowers on it? When you meet someone on the street, not on their web page? What is this world coming too? And do we really mind? Or is it simpler this way???

Even my real friends the ones that I know from school and play, I find myself conversing with them through comments and guest books and IM's more often than seeing some of them, not all mind you some don't even get on the Internet on a constant basis, but some I feel as if the only contact we have is on here? Isn't that odd?