Dave’s WordPress Blog » What is friendship?
This post is much more important than I might have given it credit for, even a few weeks ago. Reading a blog can be a powerfully intimate experience, like listening to your favorite singer on headphones, but it must not be misinterpretted as true intimacy. Reading can be a poweful learning experience, and commenting an exchange of experience, and perhaps friendships (or more) might develop from that, but as Dave says, its too easy for this to be a one way street… and as blogs allow anyone to publish, they also allow anyone to have fans, however few, and all of the baggage that comes with that.