Death on Message Boards

So there is this message board that I always check out. I love it because its a group of people that are very dear to my heart and who inspire me. The few times that I have tried to engage (not just be a consumer) have not met my expectations. Sometimes it feels like visiting a ghost town due to the lack of activity. I just checked it out again, and my name is everywhere because no one has posted anything new after me. I must be death to message boards! I have posted before in response to something and the conversation stopped, that or went around me totally. Then I thought, "well maybe I just need to post something that is interesting to me and see what happens" Ive never gotten a response! LOL! Ive promised myself not to post again until someone else does! I didn't think I had THAT much more time on my hands, but maybe its time for new interests!

I think the lurking danger of blogs vs. a board like the one above is that we can end up isolating ourselves as individuals from the people with whom we actually want to engage with. If someone other than myself is reading this, at this point I really don't know who you are! Its easier to have a conversation with ones self than with having to try and articulate ones thoughts and feelings so that others can share in that. We have become a society of typing peepers! I watch tv or read online about other peoples lives and then write about my own, but when do I open that up to actually engage with another person? Its a creepy thing really. One doesn't have to leave ones home if they didn't HAVE to. PeaPod will deliver your groceries, you can download music,movies,tv shows, Amazon can get you anything you need, then there's EHarmony and whatever chat rooms to find you a spouse. But ones house gets stale, you need to get outside and play! Stop playing those video games! Take a walk! Go rub your face in the snow! Learn to read body language. My hope is that that is the reason the board is inactive. Everyone is actually seeing one another and having these conversations in a bar somewhere or sitting around drinking coffee. (im out of state which is why I wouldn't know this) That gives me hope, maybe its not that everyone is blogging by themselves, but that we are talking, hugging and arguing about all these things in person. Not behind our mirrors, to ourselves.

I should go, I need to go shovel the driveway....