*** JC ***

i'm sad...
I am sad because I lost a friend on photoblog. When I started my blog, my intention was simply to divide photographs with other amateurs of photographs and to have their opinion on mine. i was not completely knowing the operation of this microcosm, I was unaware of saw anonymous photographs ravelling, names, comments. In front of the multitude of photographs and names, I thought that all that was anonymous...
Since I discovered that the network of friends, the favorite images, the challenges, the topics, create a mini company with its complicities, its affinities or enmities between bloggeurs. By these regular visits, these messages, these comments, a relation is created; By the photographs one builds an idea of his friends and the regular contacts create a bond.
Obviously, I know well that about PB, it is of good time to be eulogistic, that the comments are always positive... I even wondered whether a virgin image, would not have favorable comments... I also know that PB is an artificial world, that the Web is a virtual world, I know all that!
But how to remain insensitive to such an amount of human warm, complicity, impatience in waiting of new a post of his/her friends, their comments which one knows well that they will be tolerant and flattering!
But when one somebody would like one, appreciates to make him sorrow? Isn't this hypocrisy, it's not simply of softness and user-friendliness?
Today I lost a friend on photoblog, you disappeared from my "friend list" and with you, your images, your comments, your messages, it is nothing... I would not have any more the joy of discovering your new post, happiness to see you in photographs, to discover your last jokes! You even carried with you my favorite images which I had chosen on your post;
There remain nothing any more you but one great vacuum... that memories... Because you closed your blog! You cut the wire which connected to us with you, it is a white screen, a virtual death.
In front of this stopped bond I feel sad and nostalgic, it is like a mourning. I lost a friend!
Yes, in this virtual world one does not remain about it less the human ones!
Yes, one can stick to misadventures!
Yes, beyond the screen there are people whom now I will miss forever!

Good continuation in your new life, my friends jasmine, Maximus, and jj...