blogging the real

So the truth is, when blogs first came out I thought they were ridiculous. It was tough competition between facebook and blogs for the first place prize of "pathetic". But as time has gone by, blogs have quickly become one of the signature marks and forms of communication of our era. Although it seems to me that all respectable human beings should be able to derive solace and companionship from real-life relationships in the real world, instead of searching over the vast, mysterious and artificial cyberspace, blogs do provide unlimited contact with the world in a very unique sort of way. Additionally, blogs have developed into much more than a social crutch and have become real forms of academic dialogue. They provide a network of people so large and diverse which opens the doors of intellectual discussion to far more than official members of the revered "Academy" (although not excluding them either). Which is something that I am a big fan of. Ideas on blogs are much more of the honest, unique and personal thoughts of real people, freed from the shackles of formal academia. You no longer have to attend university x to be engaged in the same endeavor. The little people have become more intelligent. And for those of us actually involved in formal academia, it provides a place to probe much farther and deeper into the essence of everything than our prof.'s are interested in, their inquisitive souls having been marred long ago by the pompous goals of the formal world; it provides a forum for expressing the urgent urges of the concerned soul who experiences life desperately.
So I have concluded at this point that there is worth in this activity called blogging