I got Googled!
I was playing around in the referral logs (another exciting Friday night - who needs a date when there is technology to while away the hours?) and I noticed one of the referrals was a Google query. (Tangent: My blog is Google-able -- I had no idea! I'm almost as excited about this as I was about seeing my name in the phone book for the first time. It gives me such a feeling of legitimacy. I'm an official denizen of cyberland now - my blog is on Google!)
So anyway, I clicked on the link, and it shows the Google search return, including the keywords. Someone had keyed in "lonely mommies ottawa ontario." This really struck a chord with me, and I've been thinking about it all weekend. Isn't the Internet truly amazing? You're having a rough night, you really just want someone to talk to, so you key a few words into the search engine and see what comes up. (Beloved, realist that he is, suggested that perhaps the person was looking for lonely mommies for scurrilous reasons, but I chose to eschew that possibility.)
I've met some of my very best friends through the Internet. A few of us going through IVF treatments met on a messageboard, and decided to go out for dinner one night. I remember being so nervous - meeting people I met on the the Web seemed risky and impetuous. Fast forward four years and there are more than 20 of us in a loose online playgroup stretching through four provinces and two states, all of us having travelled the infertility highway and come out the other side, whether by assisted reproductive technology, adoption or surprise. Aside from exchanging e-mails, laughs and parenting tips, those of us who live in the same city get together regularly with and without the kids. These women have completely changed my life and I can't imagine a day going by without reaching out to them, or being touched by them.
Who would have guessed your life could be changed by what pops out of a search engine one night, when you are overwhelmed and alone and needing a friend?
Categories: infertility
So anyway, I clicked on the link, and it shows the Google search return, including the keywords. Someone had keyed in "lonely mommies ottawa ontario." This really struck a chord with me, and I've been thinking about it all weekend. Isn't the Internet truly amazing? You're having a rough night, you really just want someone to talk to, so you key a few words into the search engine and see what comes up. (Beloved, realist that he is, suggested that perhaps the person was looking for lonely mommies for scurrilous reasons, but I chose to eschew that possibility.)
I've met some of my very best friends through the Internet. A few of us going through IVF treatments met on a messageboard, and decided to go out for dinner one night. I remember being so nervous - meeting people I met on the the Web seemed risky and impetuous. Fast forward four years and there are more than 20 of us in a loose online playgroup stretching through four provinces and two states, all of us having travelled the infertility highway and come out the other side, whether by assisted reproductive technology, adoption or surprise. Aside from exchanging e-mails, laughs and parenting tips, those of us who live in the same city get together regularly with and without the kids. These women have completely changed my life and I can't imagine a day going by without reaching out to them, or being touched by them.
Who would have guessed your life could be changed by what pops out of a search engine one night, when you are overwhelmed and alone and needing a friend?
Categories: infertility
Said DaniGirl at 7:41 a.m. #
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