One of the things I like best about JoeUser is being able to read all the stuff the other JUs have written. I like reading snippets of other people's life and thoughts and often feeling a kinship with people who are total strangers. And for those of you who are reading this and thinking to yourself "Teegstar...? I haven't seen that name in the forums very often" it's usually because when it comes to topics that interest or move me enough for me to want to reply, I begin pondering the topic and I can't sum up what I'm thinking in the polite three or four lines that most comments run for. Rest assured though, my fellow JUs, that I'm around and reading.
What's interesting for me though is to read what you guys have written and build up a perception of you... and then a passing comment will bring down my carefully constructed dossier down in one fell swoop. I think it's mostly bloggers like JeremyG, DanK and Captain Cornbread who I originally envisaged as.... you're going to laugh.... guys in their mid-twenties or early thirties, only to discover they're high school kids! Which then makes me change the way I read their stuff. I don't know if that's fair -- and one thing I have appreciated the Internet for in the past is the credibility it can give you -- but it's true.
I began blogging because I wanted to have a little bit of cyberspace to myself that I could control. I wanted to be able to pour my heart out into a void where it could be read by anyone... but preferably by people who didn't know me or my situation. In some ways that would still be cool, because now when I go to write I'm always mindful of who is going to read it. However the long and the short of it is that along with acquiring my own piece of the net, I've been able to experience life with all manner of interesting people. Even if I'm completely wrong about them at first!
Iron men make good chick magnets,
Teegst*r