Are bloggers wankers?

It's a good question ... after all, with so much information floating through the tubes of the interwebz, why would you possibly want to spend time reading the cogitations of an animal who you don't know?

Because it could save your life that's why and I am not just talking about it in a metaphorical or philosophical sense either -- this blog is an actual preserver of life*.

I guess what it boils down to is a voice -- the interwebz gives us a voice and thankfully sites like www.archive.org allow us to be immortalised, after all, when it is all said and done and we are dead and buried, the only thing that is guaranteed to remain will be our online presence.

Why? Well, technology has brought us to a point where we can no longer remember the little things in life, people's phone numbers for instance, birthdays, anniversaries. A logical progression then would be, how will we remember close friends when they are no longer for these earthly constraints?

I check Facebook and its ilk every couple of days just so I can keep a tally on the number of alive friends I still have (real friends too, not those pesky non-FB people). About 100 at last count, give or take a random drunken Add request.

So are bloggers wankers?

In three words - yes and no.

Yes = because we as bloggers believe what we have to say is important and will change your life.

No = because most of us simply want to be remembered in some capacity. In some cases it is possibly to become famous and be quoted on CBC.

* -- May not actually save your life.