Loneliness (Part I) and Anonymity (Part IV)

Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there?
– Pink Floyd

Are the folks at SETI the only people who ask that question (which again they should since they have decided to make it their life’s calling), or are these words of people akin to Pink Floyd in “The Wall” in the sense that they have strived to create a self imposed isolated life in hopes that it would make it painless and on achieving the goal realize that it still eludes them?

Take a hypothetical situation; if a person is extremely satisfied in every sense of the world; physically, mentally, intellectually, etc. etc. with their daily mortal needs, which is provided by his or her family, marital partner, friends, co-workers, and etc. then one would spend most of the time interacting with them and hence would not have the time nor inclination to spend a lot of time blogging. So are we to infer that people who blog for extended periods of time are not having some aspect of their life fulfilled by the people in their lives, hence the urge to blog is direct result of this feeling of emptiness or loneliness.

Therefore if the measure fulfillment derived from blogging is a derivative of the number of people visiting and critiquing it, then aren’t all bloggers essentially asking the question “Is there anybody out there (who reads my blog)?”

Why is this mode of socialization growing at an exponential rate? Are we to categorize these people as lonely people who have been unable to achieve gratification from the so called normal avenues of life and hence are blogging? Are these lonely people, taking refuge in the anonymity being offered by internet to avoid the pains of disagreement which comes with personalized physical human interaction?

Are we all becoming Lonely Anonymous Bloggers?