Meeting other bloggers...

I've always been weirded out by other peoples apparantly weirded-outness of meeting other bloggers, or other internet users. Although I suspect my early years of being a BBS user got me over that period years and years ago.

That being said, 9 years or so ago I got my first job up here in Auckland, the drive up from Napier had be staying at strange IRC peoples houses, staying with my brother at his flat ( and darn it, I think I knew more about the IRC folk, and they more about me, than my brother and I).

Shortly afterwards, most of the people I knew were in some way related to the 'net, either working for ISPs, or people I wrote to on the local Delphi Development list, we had user group meetings complete with beer and pizza.

Were they bloggers? Well, 9 years ago they didn't have "blogs", at least not as they were, but if I discovered they were, would it be wrong for me to continue to meet them?

In this day and age, it's quite likely that someone you know, even a family member is a blogger, or a user of the internet, why is that that automatically lumps them in leage with child molesters and deranged lunatics?

Would you meet a blogger without knowing anything about them? Hell no, but then - woud you meet ANYONE without knowing something about them?

I've known people who'll swear they'd never meet someone off the net, be it an online-matchmaker deal, or a chat room/instant messaging "buddy" that they've spoken to for 5 years, and yet they'll go to the pub and pick up some cheap hussy for a nights forgettable headache without blatting an eyelid.

But oh no - not those bloggers, you have to carefull with them folk...

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