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Better in mind and out of touch than out of mind altogether

In response to the latest entry entitled "Out of touch" over at Everyday News (can't link directly to it since the archives are broken again): I just surfed the round of blogs of people i know to 'catch-up' with them, which in a way is sort of pathetic... [I] find myself 'maintaining' friendships through cyperspace. is that messed up or what? I don't think so. Heck, it's one of the main reasons I started one myself: I'd go to lunch with Kreblog and feel like I was all caught up on his life, and realized that it was disproportionate since he had no idea what I had been up to.

I appreciate blogs for this. Most of us just wouldn't have time otherwise. Better we keep in touch somehow, and I think it makes the occasions when we can get together face-to-face all the more meaningful since we don't have to catch-up. The status of my friendships reflects this: I keep in contact with zero people from high school, one person from college (and sporadically at that), no one from job #1 at Ctron -- but with the former-Ctron-IT-blogophiles, I'm doing pretty well after two years.