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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