In Search of Scrambled Eggs
It's 11 am on a rainy Monday and I am about ready to drag my sorryass back to bed. I am still coughing persistently despise 2 weeks of meds from the family doc. ugh

This internet thing is highly addictive. Someone on a mailing list I am on sent a post about how you can make scrambled eggs by placing them in a Ziploc type bag put into a pot of boiling water. I went to google it to make sure it wasn't just one of those urban legends or online rumours that you see often on the web.
From there, I pulled up a post from someone's blog having to do with them trying out this method of egg cooking. As I read the post, I became absorbed by this blogger's writing. Next thing I know, I looked up and an hour and 1/2 had passed and I had become privy to some intimate glimpses into this person's life. Quite a bit about his background and his current family drama of his weight loss, how his wife's alcoholism is destroying their marriage & the uncertain state of what to do about his wife's father who's plummeting into Alzheimer's like dementia at a rapid rate. I've never met this guy yet I know more about his life and his inner feelings than I know about most people I've known for 20 years and, on the other hand, he hasn't a CLUE I exist!

Likewise, I am on a few online mailing lists. There are large numbers of members on some of these lists that have NEVER posted yet continue to remain on the lists and read about the lives of those who do post.
The internet is responsible for turning the vast majority of us into voyeurs. If we aren't buying crap on eBay, the payments for which we have to put on credit cards b/c we are 1 paycheck away from financial disaster, we are eavesdropping on total strangers lives and feelings.

Now how sick is this and what does it say about our current culture?

What drives someone to want to blog and share their life with the cyberworld?
A way to vent or talk out their conflicts when they have no one with which to share the process?
A misguided sense of their own importance in the world?
A way to communicate with the world without having to hear any criticism?

If you get that one figured out, I'd love to know. ;-)
sluggy