Angst - an epidemic

Poor old Patroclus suffered such a crisis this week that she scared the bejesus out of us by hiding her blog. There's been a lot of it about recently - people deleting blogs, people falling out in cyberspace, people nearly-getting-dooced. And it sort of got me thinking - although the media is full of hype about the millions and billions and squillions of bloggers out there peddling their musings and ramblings and rantings, the blogosphere tends to hang around in sort of clumps and can be rather cramped, at times. I know I have a corner of it that I consider my "patch" - people I drop in on, people who drop in on me, and at times it can almost feel as if we all really know each other (which can be dangerous in itself - unless someone chooses to reveal themselves as they truly are, this is surely the best medium there could possibly be for self-reinvention?). And I sort of got to thinking that this is what it should be about. About just sort of mucking about with your mates, building little communities, or even spreading good-humoured bile among like-minded curmudgeons. So that's what I'm going to try and concentrate on, and not get bogged down in obsessing about my stats, or my popularity, or the bloody fucking ecosystem, or how many links I've got, or who I should or shouldn't link to, and why I should care if someone I've never met and am never likely to meet might disagree with me or call me names. Yeah, it's the way forward!! Are you with me, people?!!

*clicks back to Sitemeter to work out whether this month will generate more hits than November*

Bugger. Carry on.