Blogging community?

So recently I discovered my friend kevin has a blog on blogger, and wanted to see if I could somehow "friend" him like facebook/livejournal/myspace style, and quickly realized I just didn't know how. So then I decided I'd check out other people's blogs to see if that might enlighten me. I was flippin through the "next Blog" link blogger offers, and I notcied no one's blogs had any list of friends or subscribed blogs, and that most comments on blogs were either straight up spam, or were to the tune of "nice blog, come check out mine www.blahblhablha.com!"

Blogger is not what I expected. It's like we're all sitting on our own little islands, screaming our thoughts into the atmosphere, competing to be noticed by the birds. Not being able to link directly to other's blogs seems like a pretty big roadblock to forming social connections with others on the network. I've already started this blog, so I'm gonna try to stick with it, but maybe this site's not for me.

Seems like a lonely way to blog.