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i signed up for AIM the other day, i'm bracelet78 if you'd like to add me to your buddy list sometime, i'd love to chat. : ) i also have MSN, i'm michellegraceireneathotmaildotcom. it literally took me half an hour to find a name that wasn't taken for AIM that i was even remotely satisfied with. this here internet is getting a little crowded.

speaking of internet crowding... there is a post over at andrew careaga's blog about blogging, Christian blogging, "and the dreaded Christian blogging ghetto" that i find interesting. i have concluded that yes, indeed, i am a part of this "ghetto", all of my linked blogs are in fact other Christian bloggers, and i remember being pretty excited to be listed over at who links who. who links who is a site that, in a way, shows how we're all pretty much interconnected in this ghetto.

but, is this Christian blogging ghetto a bad thing? yes, in many regards, i can see that it is. but, in many other regards, i can see that it is good as well. we fellowship online with other believers. we're forming a new faith community of sorts. we're connecting with people we otherwise wouldn't connect with. we lift up one another and encourage each other.

however, as blogging becomes increasingly more popular, i also think that we, as Christians in this advancing medium, have a responsibility. our blogs have the potential to be outreach tools, as in fact they already are. but how is our ghetto turning off non-Christians to Christianity?