Is it getting impossible to keep up with keeping up with social media? As digital takes over most aspects of our lives, if we let it, how on earth can we ever hope to keep up as mere human beings?
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn – are all pulling and demanding our time and energy as we seek to share with the rest of the world what we’re up to and what we think and feel on a daily basis and even hourly basis, as well as being poked, nudged, followed, direct messaged and linked. Invitations from friends and colleagues who want you to join social networking groups and start relationships with more friends than we can ever possibly need or want. It’s all enough to make you exhausted just thinking about it all!
There could definitely be an argument for employing social media secretaries, occupied full time keeping our social media activities ship shape and all in order. Just think how many more social networks we could be part of, how many more people in the world we could share a virtual connection with and how much more time we’d actually have? Just think we might even make time to meet some of those friends and contacts face to face, how bizarre would that be, it would like being transported back to 1989!
The question is would we will be able to find the place to meet them without consulting a Google map?