I love everybody in my life and I would love to be able to talk to them on the phone on a daily basis to keep them updated on my life. Unfortunately in reality with work, family, and life I'm unable to do this.
Chances are if you do not have an online presents and the only way we get caught up is through phone or in person, we are not as close as we would like to be. It's not hard to catch-up with me or figure out what I'm doing. I'm on Google instant messenger, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and my blog. All of these online outlets link up to each other and are updated multiple times a day. You can leave me a messages on your time and I can respond on my time.
In this world when life is so busy and it is very hard to keep in touch the Internet has given us the tools to be closer then ever. The key is getting people to use them.
Don't get me wrong I love talking to people on the phone, and going out to dinner to catch up. The reality is, the amount of people I connect with in just a few minutes a day would require months of phone conversations, meals and travel.
I have 38 twitter followers, 73 Facebook friends, 28 MySpace friends, and have 45 different visitors that came to my website 217 times in the last month. I communicate my life to all of these people on a daily basis. There is no greater invention in the world then the Internet. I just wish I could get everybody in my life to understand what they are missing.
Try to open up this world to friends and family and feel closer than ever.
2 comments:
Sing it, Brother!!
You said a mouthful there. I look at all this virtual stuff and simply another means of communicating with others. I'm on the road and away from my closest friends two months out of the year, and there's no way to have that same type of intimate face-to-face communication while out of town. So I started blogging, as a means to let those folks know what's going on in my life.
In doing so, I'm putting the info out there. If those friends have the time to check those virtual outlets, they can see what's going on and then have the option to read and respond, or not.
For folks who don't use social media, it all seems like a waste of time. But it's not. It took me a year to get a Facebook account, and now I can't go a day without checking in on the dozens of people I've reconnected with (one was a close friend from college I hadn't seen for twenty-five years).
I'm rambling now and preaching to the choir. This is your blog, not mine. :-)
To use a few few advertising terms, social media doesn't replace your "reach" (interaction), it increases your "frequency" (the number of times your interact with your audience/friends).
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