[LEMONS] 8.07.2002
The attachment to a weblogger is a rare type of social bond. Even if we have never exchanged e-mail, something about the familiarity of their lives makes them more like an acquaintance. Stanley Milgram calls this type of person the "familiar stranger," like the person you see every day at the train station; despite the fact that you might never have exchanged words with them, their absence still makes you feel uncomfortable, or sad. In the same way, when a blogger I read goes on vacation, or simply disappears, I feel like I've lost a little part of myself.
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