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I haven't been on this site for quite some time. I have done a few searches on the porn pages here and there, but haven't actually come on the message boards all that much since the TFP crash years ago.

Either way, I knew I could come and ask you people about this. I know I will get some good insight, and maybe some things to say to my girlfriend that won't make her want to run me over with her car.

Anyway, I introduced my girlfriend to that msn myspace thing that msn offers and all that crap. I am sure you have all seen it. The topic about blogs came up a while ago. I told her about blogs and how google purchased blogger (I think) and the fact that blogging has changed the internet a little bit and has changed how people interact on the internet a little bit. I didn't know much about them at the time, so I couldn't go into too much detail.

Anyway, after realising that a blog is simply just a journal entry type thing, I realised that I was correct in what I said. So, I started her up on this msn myspace thingy, as well as one for myself. She posted a bunch of pictures on there and wrote one blog entry.

Her blog entry basically said that she doesn't understand the purpose of blogs. She said that she thinks that they will take away from someones social life and remove people further from the social sphere, and these people removing themselves from the social sphere will have less face to face human interaction than normal, which I guess isn't good for you.

Now, I post on message boards regularly. Unfortunately I only use them for business purposes, and sometimes the odd question on the TFP, because it is the only public message board I will ever turn to. Anyway, don't really post on blogs, because it's hard to find time. But, as you can tell from this statement of hers, it hit me, because she was basically calling me a social retard, since I am one who engages in activities similar to blogging.

We went on and argued about the fact that some people use blogs for business purposes, and some people use them for personal purposes, to connect with their friends and what-not. Some people even use them to meet people. I think it's a good way to meet people if you can't find time time/lack the ability to go up and talk to someone when you see them. She found it odd that places like somethingawful exist where people regularly meet and call themselves goons. I mean, i found it odd and one point in time too, but I could easily be convinced otherwise, because I have met people who have met online, and so has she.

Either way, she is very negative about a lot of forms of communication over the internet and doesn't realise that just because people chat online doesn't mean that they have removed themselves from the social sphere and seems to think that meeting someone from the internet in person is bad or something.

How can I show her that these types of communicatons are causing more good than bad? The catch is, I think this is going to be hard to get into her head. She is set on one way of thinking, so I think it will be hard to change her mind or to get her to admit that her original thoughts on the situation were wrong. She even said that she would need to see a study done on it that shows that it doesn't create socially retarded people.


I don't know if any of this makes sense. I am so tired right now, because it's late and I am up staring at this glowing screen typing my problems away on a message board to people i have never met before. Does that make me crazy? She seems to think so.

Anyway, I will come back and explain things further when I wake up if I need to. I am going to bed. Let me know what you think about this and what I can do to show her that people aren't crazy. Or, should I just drop it. Or, should I just talk to her about the fact that she doesn't seem like she can admit that she is wrong?

Thank you

Goodnight