why blog - my response for you Jazz

This started life as a comment, but got kinda long, so click the title to see the post i am responding to.

Why blog? Is it self important, self absorbed.

blogging makes us part of a community again, like the forums, it takes the place of disecting the minutae of life over coffee because that isn't always possible, and it adds to what is possible, it makes us feel part of each others real live's and adds new dimensions of thought to our own. people are afraid that the www is helping people escape socialisation, but in most cases, society has been breaking down for so long, communities are falling apart without the help of the internet and for many of us, in our busy lives, with our friends moving all around the country, if not world, away from our hometowns, the internet allows us to build communities where we would have had to drift alone or nearly so, and to hold on to ties we would have lost long ago without it.
And frankly it's a damn good read over coffee.