Cyber Communes in the Twenty-first Century

I just spent some time cruising around Myspace when it dawned on me that it, along with all of the other blog sites, this one included, are a cyber commune of sorts. In the 'old days', that's the nineteen-sixties and seventies, people who wanted to share their life experiences lived in communes and touched flesh. Today with globalization, this doesn't really work so people have resorted to places like Myspace.com to share themselves with the world. The other nice thing about this is since there is no real contact between members, or very little, it is very sterile. You can be whoever you want to be. It gives you the oportunity to invent another life for yourself. That sounds so much better than saying that you are lying about yourself. Now please, I am not saying that everyone on these sites are inventing their lives, but it does allow for the individual to clean up and sanitize themselves for world consumption. In the 'old days' if you lived in a commune, people saw you for who you really were, not as you would like to be seen. A persons' beauty and personallity can be well crafted at a keyboard, no morning breath is evident, no bed-head, no unshaven legs or stubbly beards first thing in the morning. Just the beauty of the well crafted sentence. Just a thought, talk to you later.