Purpose of a blog

I have tried to believe that a blog can be a personal thing thrown anonymously in the midst of an impersonal world. I am learning slowly, though, that the personal bits of my life are something worth protecting, both for my sake and the sake of others. I have been turning more to impersonal blogs just as recepticals to dump the mental garbage I get. There is no use for a journal in a connected world. What really is the purpose of a neuron in a net? It can't do much on its own. It is defined by social function.

So unless I make a mistake and let something slip, this is the only personally detailed information you'll get from me: I am a college student majoring in philosophy and neuroscience. Anything else you learn will just be the odd internal projections of my confused semantic net. Ultimately, that's probably the best way to know somebody anyhow, not by their friends or classes or towns. So I guess I'll try to convert myself to this new idea of blogging.