I know I slipped away from the Blog for a couple of weeks. I joined up on Twitter (www.twitter.com/motiv8yourself), the latest social networking craze. I’ve been examining it as a replacement to this Blog, but really I just don’t get Twitter. There’s a couple of cool celebrities on there (Shaq, Jimmy Fallon and Rainn Wilson come to mind), but apart from that it’s basically a slower and more useless way to update the world on your life. At least here on this Blog I can write in complete sentences and not be bogged down by character limits (though some may not think that that’s a bad thing).
Here’s the thing about Twitter and all social networking sites….experts say we’re getting worse at communicating with humans because we now speak less to each others faces and more to our computers. So when we use MSN or AIM or Yahoo messengers to talk, they are full conversations but through the computer. Then came Facebook, MySpace, Nexopia, Tagged, etc. and people were able to post their entire life story on the web. The communication was done through wall posts or comments and so conversations were now disjointed and spread out over days and weeks. Now we have Twitter. No profiles, no info on yourself, just 140 characters on what is going on in your life. We’ve gone from full 1 on 1 conversations to 140 character updates. I think I’m getting old…because I’m starting to agree with the experts…our methods of communication and ability to communicate does seem to be slowly deteriorating.
Anyways…short Blog tonight…I’m in Liverpool, New York which is basically a suburb of Syracuse and I’ve got a speech and a couple of workshops in Phoenix, New York about 20 mins. away tomorrow. It’s a second chance to try out my leadership fundamentals workshop so I’m excited to test it out again. The first time seemed to go great and I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes a second time.
I’ll update more on what I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks later this week. See you from Toronto!