Your Long-Distance (Blogging) Relationship
One of the beauties of blogging is that geography can be immaterial. I will read your blog even if you live thousands of kilometres (or miles, or stone throws etc) away; even if you complain about the winter while I bask in summer; even if you write with a funny accent; even if we never meet.
Which is kind of weird, when you think about it too much, which I don’t. But what are the advantages of being in a (blogging) relationship with someone far away?
1. Personal hygiene doesn’t matter.
You could go weeks without washing, and I’d never complain.
2. It’s free.
We don’t need to spend hours on expensive long-distance calls, or spend thousands on plane tickets for quick get togethers.
3. Low expectations.
When the chemistry ends we can simply stop reading each other’s blogs - no tears over a candlelit dinner, no listening to breakup songs, no rabbit scene from Fatal Attraction.
4. Our families need never meet.
So it doesn’t matter if your surname’s Montague and mine is Capulet. Star-crossed? More like bandwidth-crossed!
5. Monogamy is not encouraged.
Well, who wants only one reader?
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Nice article. Was it good for you, too?
November 28th, 2007 at 5:00 amwhew, third one here and i’m don’t feel like i’m interupting, more like joining in. blog 3-some anyone?
November 28th, 2007 at 5:12 amyou’ll read my blogs if I die
November 28th, 2007 at 7:37 amI’ve had really intimate relationships (well, not like a dozen, but maybe 2 or 3) on an online forum which would have been nearly impossible in reality. I still kind of miss those people, and they keep popping up in my memories sometimes. Chemistry on the internet is a bit difficult to define. Guess you just know it when you have it…Great post, BTW. Very few bloggers talk about this, although most everyone has experienced it.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:15 pmThanks Ling, yes it’s definitely a new style of friendship!
January 1st, 2008 at 9:33 am