The Blogging Community

Since I first started blogging on FreshBlogger in 2006 and created this lens sometime after that, social networking on the web has gone crazy. I don't think anybody really predicted just how huge all of this would become. Maybe we should have known that the internet, and now social sites, are filling a need that people in the Western World especially have been missing out on for a long time.

This is that sense of belonging, that feeling of being a part of a community. It seems like life is so impersonal these days in so many ways. People rub shoulders with so many other people and get deluged with information from any number of sources in the world around us, that we easily get lost. It's hard to build connections when so much in the media is a million miles away and the people you do meet in life are so often just passers-by with no time to forge a real bond.

Blogging has been a way for people to connect. It's been a great way to share ideas and thoughts and feelings on any subject you could imagine. It was the precursor to social networking or Web 2.0. Many people have gravitated toward social networking because it requires less effort than blogging. Sound bites of only a few words are just fine while most blogs need a little more meat. Despite all of the competition, the blogging community of the world is going stronger than ever now.