Response Wesch's YouTube Writing In Progress

Vlogs are likened to notes thrown out into the sea, in Wesch's poetic analysis of YouTube Vlogging.  As he writes, the audience is clearly a we, not only me.  Beginning with Sio Villagers and their first experience with Polaroid Cameras the reader confronts the power of context collapse.  Edmund Carpenter - the anthropologist who snapped the Polaroid - was shocked at the response of fear and isolation the villagers felt.  The picture was a flat image of their communal sense of identity, soon after individualism grew.  Along with this building styles, and social interaction were radically changed.  All from one picture.

 Wesh writes that each time we join another social networking platform  not only are the ways of expressing ourselves changing, but rather a new mirror by which we reflect upon our selves emerges.  ---A new reflection that provides individuals with an opportunity to question themselves in relation to a larger universal vision of humanity. 

Vloggers address an unknown audience, the context by which their thoughts will be received leaves behind previous social norms.  No facial clues, no feelings, not even an idea of who will tune in -

"Like a building collapse, context collapse does not create a total void but a chaotic version of its once ordered self."  (Wesh p. 7).  - As the things that seem to make up what a person 'knows' of the world alter - it as if rapidly people are all becoming strange travelers in distant lands.  These lands are truly lands of imagination - created by those who seek to portray a dream into a language - to be tweaked - and then shared.  Vloggers fear not only the unknown audience, but their future self.  I understand this feeling - often I have edited or deleted pictures, websites, blogs, parts of profiles- out of a fear of the way I am being seen, but perhaps on a deeper level related to the way I begin to see myself.  Instead of seeing self expression as a personal project left in a journal to be discovered after the authors death, virtual expression makes visible a collective identity - it is almost as if you must recognize that what you do - can change everyone else.  Or it could never be viewed.  

Watching ---As we watch the vloggers we experience a sense of 'being' - a closeness with a stranger because you are not distracted by the context of having them feel uncomfortable as you stare.
YouTube is seen as creating a sense of deep communal sharing, but in a very loose way.  Most likely people do not ever 'really' meet. 
I want to ask a ?.  Is this sense of connection viewers feel with vloggers, the same spark that inspires people to do something more than they thought they could?  Are these spaces making visible, the invisible fabric of -