Do We Still Communicate One On One?

I'm a blogger. I enjoy sharing parts of myself with people, especialy when most people know you in a group context. i like providing tidbits of my life and my thoughts on sometimes useful but often unimportant items.

But a question has come up from the Wunderkraut blog about blogging vs talking one on one. Have we lost the ability to communicate to one person can we sit and talk or worse yet do we let blogging and these mass interactions stop us form seeking each other out, thanks Riss for allowing me to riff on your thought.

Here I am talking to you all in my blog and I think this is the new personal. For example, i dont know if I would have been able to tell people about my shit job and getting screwed if i didnt have this blog. And by using this blog my ideas and randomness dont seem so crazy and random. Maybe the slight anominity of the internet allows me to be more free. I can reveal myslef to people but am I connecting?

That being said the art of conversation is lost, maybe it is people in DC but they talk in short bullet points, there is no give and take. I do think people open up slightly, but it is more to win the discussion then to have an exchage of ideas. Just because you can say, my cousin fought in Iraq doesnt make you an expert.

I think as a whole that we as a modern population no longer try and connect. I think we try and win but blogs allow us to reveal part of ourselves. I think the anonimity of blogs and IM give some people the ability to say what they want, this is equal to liquid courage or drinking before you talk to a girl. That being said that would make blogging or IM equal to a drug. IM and blogging are the new drugs.