Who Cares?
December 7th, 2009by Jessica Valenzuela @mavindigital
The advent of social media as a way to deliver and consume information has lifted personal and professional barriers. We’re more social as a species. Technology has disarmed our inhibitions or given us the space to be less inhibited. Like anything new we experiment and test. Run a variety of use case scenarios to discover if this is something you’ll want to have as part of your life rituals and for how long?
Does it diminish the depth of our social connection simply because we know we can FB or Twitter people anytime, any day? Does it bring me closer to the world at large and say…oh wow I didn’t know thinkers like that exist.
I really don’t have all the profound answers. As much as I am a big consumer both on a personal and a professional level, I wonder about the real connection it creates. I wonder if we are on a feeding frenzy? Feeding on each others’ ideas, maligning them secretly or are we truly helping and inspiring each other?
I am in places like Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and now Tumblr. Some of my close circle of friends asks why do you care or they’ll laugh at me having posted photos from the previous night’s event. I guess my simple answer is I just do.
Secretly I hope that those who are in these social networks do care enough to be there and contribute. How about a cup of coffee with that?
Tags: facebook, foursquare, gowalla, Social Media, social network, Technology, tumblr, twitter
