In my husband's case, this is true. Of course he is also well-known for being a complete gun nut. (But on a more serious side, I know he considers his two best guy friends as his "army buddies"-- both of whom are actually IN the army, and one of them is in Iraq right now. He worries about him, obviously, but he's also got this sense that he wants to be over there with him, being his war buddy, looking out for him. It's very sweet and a little sad actually. He can't stand the organizational bull of the military so doesn't REALLY want to join himself-- though he had been in ROTC for awhile-- but sometimes I worry if something DID happen to John, he'd do something crazy like join up to avenge him or something).
On the subject of keeping a webjournal... the primary reason is it's a good way to keep in touch with a lot of people at once-- I know what's going on in the lives of all my friends on lj and they know about me. Now, emails are good too, but they're better if you have something actually to SAY to a PARTICULAR person, and most people don't feel compelled to share their day-by-day ordinariness with their email penpals... but still it's nice to know those things. I hadn't heard from my old roommate gloworm59 in over a year when I decided to email her and let her know I'd had a lot of interesting dreams about her and that reminded me I hadn't heard from her in over a year... but she in turn sent her livejournal address, and since then I know far more about what she's up to! (At about the same time another friend who had recently moved across the state, majellen, sent me a link to one of HER lj entries, and the coincidence forced me to start an account of my own, just to keep up with these people). In another point, though, it also gives me a place to blabber. No one is FORCED to read my random opinions on things, but they have the OPPORTUNITY to-- which is something I don't get by blabbering to myself in my own paper journal. In high school my best friend and I used to exchange journals to read each other's random thoughts, and I missed being able to share that sort of stuff. On the third thing, there are the livejournal communities, in which I can share my geeky opinions about my obsessions with OTHER PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY CARE. Whoo-hoo!
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Date: 2005-11-02 09:23 pm (UTC)In my husband's case, this is true. Of course he is also well-known for being a complete gun nut. (But on a more serious side, I know he considers his two best guy friends as his "army buddies"-- both of whom are actually IN the army, and one of them is in Iraq right now. He worries about him, obviously, but he's also got this sense that he wants to be over there with him, being his war buddy, looking out for him. It's very sweet and a little sad actually. He can't stand the organizational bull of the military so doesn't REALLY want to join himself-- though he had been in ROTC for awhile-- but sometimes I worry if something DID happen to John, he'd do something crazy like join up to avenge him or something).
On the subject of keeping a webjournal... the primary reason is it's a good way to keep in touch with a lot of people at once-- I know what's going on in the lives of all my friends on lj and they know about me. Now, emails are good too, but they're better if you have something actually to SAY to a PARTICULAR person, and most people don't feel compelled to share their day-by-day ordinariness with their email penpals... but still it's nice to know those things. I hadn't heard from my old roommate