How is your virtual life?

Dear blogger!

This blog is based on a course I’m attending at Stockholms University called giicod. The idea of giicod is to study the individual taking part in the social media, and part of the course is to have your own blog. Something like; You have to be in it, to be able to observe….

So I have been blogging lately, and felt a bit lostinspace , but now I feel more curious than lost. I’m curious about the blogosphere and the people taking part of it. On Technorati you can read that about 120,000 new webblogs is being created worldwide each day. The number is from April 2007, so today it’s probably even more. – That’s a lot of blogs! Why are all these blogs created and what makes people spent hours after hours writing them?

Walter J. Ong is writing about how writing restructures consciousness, in his book Orality and Literacy:

“Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention, writing has transformed human consciousness.”

Is the structure of consciousness one of the reasons that people write blogs? Or is blogging about leaving a tracemark of your identity? Will the social media transform the human consciousness just like Mr. Ong says writing does? Sometimes I feel like it transforms mine and put me in a virtureality state of mind, and that can be quite weird; One life in reality and another life through the computer…

• Have you had the same experience?
• How is your virtual life?
• If you’re a blogger: What motivates you to write?
• Where do you think the blogosphere and social media will bring us?
• Is it easier to connect with people in the virtual world than in reality – if so – why?
  That’s just a few questions of my mind and I want you to help me with the answers, so please leave a comment…

Thanks for your time and interest!