Introduction

This semester, I am taking a class on digital technologies and I am especially interested in the reasons why people create the cybernetic identities they create. While I won't rant on about this, one area of particular interest for me has been blogging. A great deal of research asks why people blog, and most of that research suggests that people do it because it provides them a venue to have a voice. While thinking about this, I ultimately decided that I have a voice and thus blogging wouldn't make a great deal of sense. However, there are a ton of moments where I feel like saying something (sometimes to someone, but usually to a group of people) that I don't have the guts to actually lay out there.

Hence why I am starting this project. My goal is to use this space to vent by writing "letters." These letters are things I wish I had the nerve to send, but never will because I'm just not quite that kind of person. My next post will be a good example, but I reserve the right to have this space take on different formats. In most cases, though, this will be a space for me to vent (for my own purposes, and also for those who have struggles similar to mine). Sometimes I think blogs are pointless. Sometimes, though, I think they're very well done (check out my friend Danielle's blog at http://condensations.blogspot.com for a good example). Hopefully, this will fall into the later category. In any case, perhaps this will help me better understand why it is that people share with entirely unknown online communities that which they may not share on the phone with a close friend.