I admit…. I am NOT a tech geek, I do not buy the first generation anything. I do not have a DVR. At the same time I do not resist technology. I am just slow to learn it. I have never had a myspace page . I do, however, believe there is something behind social media. Linkedin is one, and the most popular is Facebook.
I signed up in January to help create links to my website and grow my practice. Well, the next thing I know a girl from my kindergarten class “friended” me. And so the craziness begins. In a mattert of weeks, I found myself looking up people I have not seen in 10-20- 30+ years. The web continues, and when you send a “friend” request, you see their friends and realize there is someone you knew as well. The truly amazing thing about all this is how unbelievably, and embarrassingly addictive this is.
You start to spend hours, and I mean hours searching people, joining groups, taking surveys, etc… and the part that I find so amzing is you literally feel like you are in a time capsule. You look at some of these people and are just amazed at where the time has gone. I’ve always said, “time stands still for no one”. There were a few people that I would not have recognized if I was standing next to them in a phone booth (remember those?).
It gives you a chance to reaquaint with friends and family members, former co-workers and alumni. You have an info page and photo page to help catch you up to old times. I even was in contact with summer friends from the 70’s and 80’s, and glad I did.
So while you are on your computer, give it a try. you’ll be glad you did.