Your Mom Thinks You’re A Nerd And Is Worried About Your Social Life
23 Dec
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Your mom is worried about your “anti-social” behavior. She hears rumors that you’ve been sucked into the devil’s domain of the computer.
Little does she know that this computer world is your “social life.” But she doesn’t get that. And you don’t get her.
Her problem?
Not sure she has one. She may be right.
Your problem?
You forget that no one knows what social media is.
Nobody has a clue about Twitter. Oh yeah – you and your “tweeps” do because you are on there all the time. But ask your mother – aunt – co-workers – and children. The don’t know. More importantly, they don’t care. Scary thought isn’t it… someone not caring about Twitter.
Gasp!
We seem to forget that these social media do-hickeys we love so much are merely tools. Tools that help us buy and sell things. Tools that help us build relationships. Tools that help us learn and teach.
That’s it really.
And people have been buying and selling, making friends, and learning and teaching since the beginning of time. There are principles and fundamentals to these things that have never changed and will never change. My advice (and I’ve taken this myself) is to pull your head out of the “social media sand” and look around at what you’re actually doing here.
Are you selling, learning, teaching, buying, and friending with this stuff? Or are you making noise, being a poser, and worrying your mother.
Because in a way your mom is right.
She probably sees social media (if she grasps it at all) as a tool. (Or a waste of time – but that’s for another post).
And she can’t seem to understand why you won’t sit down for a cup of coffee with your friend once a week rather than tweet him about what kind of coffee you had each time throughout the day.
Am I making sense?
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