Imagine a little girl running across the lawn pretending that goes by the hand of a girlfriend.
That was the social network available to me years ago, after my best friend Linda went and I was devastated. There were no other children in the rural village where he lived and that was all I could do.
Now that decades have passed, not knowing what to do with all the relationships I have: hundreds of friends, friends of friends and people who do not know, I maintain relationships with several social networks, virtual the Internet.
There is no doubt that it is an efficient way to communicate. But really, sometimes I feel I will explode the head. (As I write this, I try not to distract with my e-mail alerts that I Jhon Teedledee are “following” on Twitter).
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In the 1980s, I loved to write letters by hand. In the nineties I started to use email because it is easier and immediate. In this decade, despite my good intentions, my communications are becoming shorter and the circular I mostly through Facebook, Twitter or by text messages. As I said, efficient, but at a cost.
Consider the blatant friend recently described me thus: “He communicates with thousands of people at once. That’s it.”
He was referring in part to my job as a journalist, but as technology gives us the ability to communicate with more people, occasionally get these darts from family and friends.
His comments strike me as somewhat hypocritical since many of them also have large social networking sites. That’s the irony of our times: we were more connected than ever now, at least through the apparatus, and yet many yearn to be the exclusive focus of attention from friends, family, bosses and coworkers.
What we want is simplicity, balance and a way to focus, even though electronic enhance our relationships, either by choice or not.
Wonderful write
Thank u for the share
Interesting work.
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.