"It's a new dawn, a new day
a new life for me
And I'm feelin' good"
A catchy Weight Watchers commercial and words that capture how I feel about my world these days.
I began making online friends with Yahoo many years ago, first with message boards and then blogging with Y-360 which no longer exists. Then there was and still is Multiply - a blogging platform that is based on connections between people and friendships rather than just random blogging to the world.
Then there's Facebook - and I confess that I probably spend more time there than I should - but it does help me keep up with friends and family - allowing instant sharing of important (and unimportant) bits of information that we run across - it even has a chat function which has pretty much replaced the MSN and Yahoo instant messengers that I used to use.
But there's been something missing in my online world, and I think I've figured it out - its the blogging. Not the communicating back and forth with friends and family, because that still exists in all of the venues I visit.....but the occasional visit/comment from passersby, the invitations to check out their own page, and the friendships that often blossom from this "random" sort of interaction.
I've made some great friends just because they happened to "say" something that struck home with me - or I did the same for them - and the comments flew back and forth - and the next thing I knew, our worlds were the better for knowing each other.
I don't know if things still work that way in cyberspace - but what I do know that I've not taken the time to search out different blogs and make comments the way I used to. And my blogging has changed as well.....I don't write as often as I did because I'm already communicating with the folks I know via FB so they already know what I'm going to write about.
I still want to blog - but I want to try to go back to what it was when I started.....as a somewhat anonymous single woman sharing pieces of her thoughts and dreams (and her trials and tribulations) in a way that connects with other human beings. I need to once again just put my posts "out there" and see what happens.
