Spent a little time this week surfing for people who'd met and fallen in love on Yahoo! Personals, where I lead the product development team , and thought the diversity of blogging voices that turned up was worth sharing as an example of how pervasive sharing, uh, everything has become.
I started with a search on Yahoo! Personals and clicked through on some of the snips that turned up--including these--
Jan, MySpaceBlog: Bryan is truly a great guy with a big heart!! I am very blessed to have him in my life, I am so glad that I took that chance & e-mailed him through yahoo personals, I never thought those kind of things work but guess what? They really do!!
One3y3 open: It's hard to fathom where I would be, who I would be with, and at what stage of my life I would be in if you hadn't responded to my Yahoo! Personals ad.
Third Offence: It's like EBay for People!
Bella's bold, brilliant blog: Back in early December, I met someone on Yahoo Personals that I was sure Could Be The One.
And the links went on and on. Lotsa people telling their stories, most with no one linking to them--an interesting demonstration of just how many people are using blogs and personal spaces to share experiences and communicate about everything.
Any time you doubt it just do a search for " we met online" or " my cat is so cute!" or " I need a new job" and see all the links that turn up.
Yep.
We've inside a universe of always accessible comunicators, one click away from both the ridiculous and the sublime.












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