now there's an idea

i found this very interesting post from a new blogger. she thinks that women write more interesting blogs than men. i agree, just look at my sidebar :)

actually what was more interesting was how she psychoanalyzed three bloggers after reading what they wrote. i found this quite fascinating. theres something ive thought about very often and thats how the internet allows you to communicate with people anonymously. we already have email, im, chat where you are nameless, faceless and personalityless. you can be anyone you want to be. then there are things like orkut and where you give more information about yourself, but you choose exactly how much to give. if you want, you can post photos and fill in details about your background. or you can just have a name and thats it. finally there are blogs. you are still faceless, but now people actually get a look into your personality. what you write about, what you say and how you say it lets people imagine the kind of person you are. sure, you can make up things about yourself, but its impossible to change your basic underlying nature. so i think a blog is the best window into a persons soul that the internet has been able to provide.

and personally, i have formed mental pictures of all the people whose blogs i read. i have an idea about how they look, what they behave liek and even what they sound like. maybe i am missing the mark completely. i remember when i was in school i thought that jimmy on calcutta fm was this really smokingly hot guy, but then i saw him and i was shattered. people in calcutta should understand what i mean, everyone else i think gets the picture. anyways, i think ill spend a couple of posts on what my mental picture is of the various people whose blogs i visit. hopefully, theyll drop by to tell me if im right or wrong. of course im leaving out people like samit basu, who is a celebrity so everyone knows everything about him, and all the peopl who i know personally. but this should be fun. hey, maybe ill start something.

so next post ill try and describe eM who everyone knows but no one has seen. oh, and please see her post on chatting which is related to what i said, but only sorta. but its all good :)

oh, and after that i must put up my rant against orkut which has been building inside me for a while. on of the many things i must do, must do.