Are Blogs Part of Life?
In the past few weeks, I have more time doing things I do not do regularly, such as chat online at BBS. This is an entirely new experience. The thoughts on the BBS are usually short and simple. It is very hard to see some excellent and well-thought-about ideas. But they are ideas on-the-fly. They are fresh and spontaneous. They are the brainwave sampling process. If all these brain powers are united, the entire traditional news business becoming less and less important. The discussions on the BBS are so diverse so that there is no definite trend. The small BBS of Wuxue has more than seven thousand registered users. There are more unregistered users come in and out of the site at regular intervals.
Most of the BBS users use pseudonyms. There are some use real names. Since the BBS of Wuxue is within a very small circle, they know each other by pseudonyms and real names as well. Online they are friends. In real life they might work together and are friends as well. This is a new duality in life. There is a physical side of communications. There is also a virtual side of communications. In face to face communications, these two respective sides are collapsed as one. With the advance of online technology and new ways of communications, the differences in these two aspects are becoming very clear and real.
From the beginning of the online communications, there were news readings and email messages. With the emergence of the web pages, people first create web pages like geocities. Then the BBS and blogs come. While Flicker just becomes warmed up, the Twitter comes. What’s the next? No matter what comes, it is clear that the virtual side of communications becomes more and more distant from the physical or face-to-face communications.
There is a definite need for human to communication with each virtually. When I think about it, the study of history or any other subject matters is communication in virtual forms. Since the communications between the authors of books and the readers are time-lagged, it seems that the interactive side of the communications becomes very unclear. The online communications totally changed that time-lagged aspect. In some cases, the communications is instantaneous. The time-lag is almost negligible. There is sometime an urge to obtain the response from the others just like what happens in physical communications.
With the blogs, I have a lot of more funs with time. I can do something first, then I blog about it. Then a trail of my life is left in somewhere. Before the blogs or BBS, this trail is lost in most cases. Maybe, this love of leaving a trail of life is the real drive of the fast development of online communications in real time and along multiple lines of thoughts.
With blogs, I have also a lot of dreams to write down my memories of the life before the blogs and BBS. I was wondering if I could recreate the lust of life happened before the blog came to life. Or in other words, if I am too busy with keeping a record of memorized experience, I may miss the opportunity to keep writing what’s going on in the current day. This is a dilemma and something to ponder when typing words on to the computer screen.
Most of the BBS users use pseudonyms. There are some use real names. Since the BBS of Wuxue is within a very small circle, they know each other by pseudonyms and real names as well. Online they are friends. In real life they might work together and are friends as well. This is a new duality in life. There is a physical side of communications. There is also a virtual side of communications. In face to face communications, these two respective sides are collapsed as one. With the advance of online technology and new ways of communications, the differences in these two aspects are becoming very clear and real.
From the beginning of the online communications, there were news readings and email messages. With the emergence of the web pages, people first create web pages like geocities. Then the BBS and blogs come. While Flicker just becomes warmed up, the Twitter comes. What’s the next? No matter what comes, it is clear that the virtual side of communications becomes more and more distant from the physical or face-to-face communications.
There is a definite need for human to communication with each virtually. When I think about it, the study of history or any other subject matters is communication in virtual forms. Since the communications between the authors of books and the readers are time-lagged, it seems that the interactive side of the communications becomes very unclear. The online communications totally changed that time-lagged aspect. In some cases, the communications is instantaneous. The time-lag is almost negligible. There is sometime an urge to obtain the response from the others just like what happens in physical communications.
With the blogs, I have a lot of more funs with time. I can do something first, then I blog about it. Then a trail of my life is left in somewhere. Before the blogs or BBS, this trail is lost in most cases. Maybe, this love of leaving a trail of life is the real drive of the fast development of online communications in real time and along multiple lines of thoughts.
With blogs, I have also a lot of dreams to write down my memories of the life before the blogs and BBS. I was wondering if I could recreate the lust of life happened before the blog came to life. Or in other words, if I am too busy with keeping a record of memorized experience, I may miss the opportunity to keep writing what’s going on in the current day. This is a dilemma and something to ponder when typing words on to the computer screen.
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