First time for everything

So here I am. One would think after my intense addiction to craigslist I would have thought to create something much earlier. But alas, I have not. Until now that is!

I have named my blog after two television characters that I have followed for a long time. Maybe its corny but to me Law&Order is one of the few viewer worthy shows, so the name of the blog is in a sense me raising a glass to the characters. Cheers!

I wonder - is the popularity of blogs and other postings somewhat of a phenomenon or is it in our nature to want to spread our thoughts. What did one do when there was no blog? Oh that's right, we talked to one another. We didn't express our thoughts through an anonymous fashion, we interacted in physical settings. Is this necessarily better, and are we better off having the outlet of the blog? If you think of it, you can get shot down through a relatively harmless medium (the internet) or if we were to go back to the older way of interaction in person. Obviously the in person interaction is much harsher. Inflection of voice, facial expressions, physical gestures, and countless other things go into a statement. When a statement is put to text it is a different story. The reader has full control of something written in two ways, interpretation and response. In a medium similar to craigslist, for example, a person can write/post a rant, other people will read the rant, react according to their personal experiences/attitudes/values/etc and if provoked enough will reply to that post that invoked the reaction. There is no physical interaction, here the bully and the weakling can go head to head. Meaning the veil of the internet can make any person as powerful or thought provoking as they want to be.
The same question should be posed to me - why instead of interacting with people are you posting in this boundariless environment? Umm, just because I bring up the question doesn't mean I have to answer it. But when I think about it, I feel like it is just a large blank diary craving its pages to be filled. Personal thoughts and other items can gently rest in this bed of blog.