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[merchimerch]

I'm having one of those "does anyone even read this?" kind of moments. I'm wondering about the nature of lj communication - it all seems so one way. By reading peoples ljs I'm sucking up all their one way communication, and people (I think) do the same for me, but does it ever really turn into a dialogue in the way it would if I had a conversation with them? I wonder do I converse less with my friends now because I read their ljs? Of course with some people even having a regular conversation is like have side by side one way communication...anyway, I suppose the point of my lj is not to dialogue with people - at the moment it is to try and record some of my fieldwork year incase my hard drive gets wiped before I get home.

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[merchimerch.livejournal.com]

I agree that mostly this is a good way to keep up with people's lives, at the moment I'm just wondering what it does to my other forms of communication. Right now I certainly use LJ as my main way of keeping up with everyone back in the states, but letters and emails and IMs seem dialogue based. I was thinking this morning about how much like a monologue this seems to me - and by reading a bunch of other people's life-monologues and having them read mine, is there still something major missing because there is no dialogue? That said, anyone I want to dialogue with is usually just an IM/email/phone call away, so it's moot.