Several years ago I had a notion to send a " message in a bottle"--the kind a person might throw overboard, to wonder if anyone would pick it up and read it. I remembered a story I heard as a teenager, about one of our neighbors, who became bored at sea and threw a message in a bottle overboard. He eventually received a reply from the president of the United States. So he certainly knew that someone found his message.
I searched "message in a bottle", but it was in use only as the name of a business. Twitter seemed something like a "message in a bottle". So is a blog, especially when you consider how many blogs there are-- anyone actually reading any individual blog is very unlikely. It may just float about in the cyber sea, and never wash up on a beach or be found by a ship.
My neighbor probably never expected a real reply--and neither do I. Throwing the message overboard is enough.
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