Does this describe you?

From the stranger, a cutting analysis of the livejournal/blog thing:

...These questions first occurred to me last year when I found out about LiveJournal.com, a site where thousands of people, mainly young, publish personal diaries that are updated often and read compulsively by fellow journal keepers and lurkers alike.

Aside from the inversion of the classic nature of a diary (i.e., private), the site didn't seem so unusual at first. What made LiveJournal feel unique was its institutional character, discernable in a wide cross section of journals, whereby the diarists felt a responsibility to their audience--to be honest, sure, but to keep 'em coming back. There's an element of performance in online-journal-keeping that rubs harshly against the whole idea of chronicling one's inner life. Then again, the world is full of people eager to broadcast their personal drama, and even fuller of people eager to receive it. This wasn't standard-issue narcissism. It wasn't just that these kids were airing their business to the world; it was that they were doing it in a prescribed format, alongside countless others who had either been invited to join free or paid the 10 bucks. This "forum for personal expression" has an eerily standardized quality about it, which inevitably spills over into the expression itself, and again manifests in the quest for quantity. Several LiveJournalists display hit counters to show how many people to date have peeked into their lives. Every user profile contains a list of the user's friends, and the friends of their friends, and so on and so on and so on. A few cross-indexed clicks and you've crossed the country, peering into the private turmoil of dozens of pre- to post-adolescents, all of whom are keeping track of one another, though they will very likely never meet. It can be compelling and compulsive reading, but it can also make you feel a bit uneasy. Is there such a thing as overconnected?