Has Privacy Gone Out the Window?

It seems like in today's day in age you can find out anything about anyone via cyber space. With websites, such as google, facebook, myspace, twitter, linked, Hi5, blogger, wordpress etc. it is easy to access information about anyone. You can learn about a person's personal life, find out about any past convictions, and even see pictures of there daily lifestyle. It 's crazy to think that you can connect with people in way which was not possible several years ago. Are we losing personalization in this cyber era? Is it easier to write an e-mail or call someone rather than to write a card and send it through the mail or even meet someone up for coffee? Or is this cyber era only enhancing our ways of communicating? I recently had a friend discover my blog and he told me he was surprised because he thought I was more of a private type of person, although that is true to some degree I do enjoy writing. What's the point of writing something if no one is ever going to read it? After our brief conversation I realized that perhaps we do not live in a private world anymore, but the only ones who are to blame for that is ourselves. Is it necessary to join or be apart of all of these websites?

Skepticism from a new blogger...

I have always considered myself a pretty assertive person, and for some time now I have felt, and have also been told that I should start a blog. To some degree the idea has struck my fancy, but at the same time makes me a little uneasy about doing so. I am a fan of stating your opinion and being honest, but writing a blog is something a bit more personal where anyone can read your thoughts and "know" you to some extent, it makes me skeptical because I am not sure I want strangers to know me without even speaking to me, to know my personal thoughts and feelings, but at the same time its as though it is some form of therapy, thoughts that are no longer in me but out there...I guess here goes nothing...sincerely the skeptical blogger!!!