Keeping a Notebook

   I think that keeping a blog is a way for people in this century to attempt keeping in touch with one another. One of our really good family friends' daughter lives in Kansas City with her 3 small children, and she keeps a blog as a way to keep up with everything that is going on in their lives and as a way to keep everyone who doesn't live very close to them involved in the children's lives as well. Although the initial intentions of keeping a journal, diary, or blog may not be narcissistic, it is almost inevitable that the posts and information provided in them are of a narcissistic nature. For example, the blog my friend keeps about her kids may be a way to keep the grandparents and aunts and uncles included in the lives of their family, it is also a way for the kids' mother to say look at how awesome my kids are. She may not be intending the posts to come off as narcissistic, but if you really think about it, they are.
   I, personally, do not keep a blog. I have a Facebook page where I will occasionally update my status and upload pictures from different places I've been, but I don't keep a written record of my daily life. I think that social media, like Facebook and Twitter, have greatly changed the way that people record information. They allow a person to almost instantly update the people of the internet with where they are currently at, what they are doing, and who they are doing it with, almost making the need for a written journal unnecessary. In a round-about way, I think that the "journals" of today are accomplishing the same thing that those of the past did.