StoryQuest Blog

Last time I checked I haven’t seen or spoken to one of my best friend’s across the country in quite a few months, yet I know exactly what he is up to every hour of every day thanks to Facebook. We haven’t had a telephone conversation, but have communicated via instant message, texting and email. Come to think of it, besides photos and text, we haven’t had one-on-one person-to-person contact in almost two years, which makes me wonder if our friendship has disintegrated a bit because of it.

Social Media has succeeded at connecting us, but has it also succeeded in making us more socially disconnected? Well, in one way social media has made us more social. I am more connected to people from my past than I have ever been. I see their daily life, their children, their vacations, but if I email them asking them how they are doing I get probably less than a 30-word response.

Social media applications such as Twitter have taken this ideology and put it to work.  Dense, brief content that limits you to 140 -characters to describe anything you may be doing or feeling. Now with over 3-million tweets each day, Twitter has grown and expanded beyond most people’s expectations. On a broader scale, texting has also limited our verbiage as well as.

Any way you spell it, these platforms encourage us to be less articulate, create endless amounts of content while all the while become more detached doing it. On the other, I have connected to people and business prospects that may have never been possible otherwise.

Social media is a tool and a double-edged sword. Being that as it may, Facebook is the fourth most trafficked site in the world right now,thus we are all somewhat forced to pay attention. Either way, I’m along for the ride, wherever it may take my business or myself.