Posts Tagged ‘social media’

I don’t believe in showing up early for a party (after all, it’s important to make an entrance). In a busi­ness con­text, this prob­ably isn’t the best thing in the world, and in an internet con­text, it’s even less so. For instance, I just recently started making use of Twitter. I hon­estly didn’t get what the big idea was. Then I started using it.

It’s amazing. News stories break on Twitter before the news­pa­pers even have an idea what’s going on. You can see real-time photos of Stephen Fry stuck in an elev­ator. If you com­plain about a product, its man­u­fac­turers will help you out. But most fas­cin­ating are the con­ver­sa­tions: it’s like what I ima­gine The Crysalids was like. Someone makes a com­ment about the colour of the sky, and people respond; threads of con­ver­sa­tion begin spidering off in dif­ferent tan­gents. Anyone can jump in at any point and drop out just as easily, and nobody dom­in­ates because every response is lim­ited to 140 char­ac­ters. It’s the digital rep­res­ent­a­tion of the col­lective uncon­scious­ness. And it’s searchable!

Social media, I’m sure you’ve heard, is chan­ging our world. If you’re late to the party, like me, it’s time to get involved! Rather than give you a bunch of inform­a­tion that may or may not be true, I’m going to point the way to some resources from more cred­ible experts than I.

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