3:31PM
Short cuts on conversation: the power of the blog
Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at 3:31PM At a gathering like this, I bump into that weird reality where I meet people who read the blog and feel like they know me quite well, when, in most instances, we've never met.
So you walk down a hall during a break and someone blurts out, "Hey, you've got Favre for another year!"
And without losing a beat, I just beam back, "Maybe two!"
End of conversation.
Reader Comments (2)
preachers get this a lot. you stand up in front of a group of people and speak to them. you share about yourself. they process the information, some of which is personal. and they feel like they have this relationship with you. but they don't really.
It's parasocial relationship stuff ... only in Barnett's case, not linked to a TV/radio character ... but to a blog celebrity. Blog "participants" are even less "passive" than TV "participants" (and there is argument that this passivity is overstated ... think of the scads of Will & Grace fans who will quite seriously mourn next week after the last episode!)
Google Horton and Wohl, who coined the term ...