3 Ways Social Networking Ruined My Social Skills

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Trey Mills

A once gregarious, crowd worker that could shake hands, kiss babies, and provide that, "How Yooouu Doing!?" (see below) pop was amazed what a few months of social networking did to his real world social skills this past week on a cruise ship full of strangers.

  1. Instead of playing the name game and asking their profession, I wanted to see a list of their "connections" and a brief run down of their working history as told by them. (LinkedIn). Making connections the new cyber space way. Click here.
  2. I wanted a little photo of everyone on the ship and then ask the ones I felt I had more in common with to be "my friend".  (Facebook)
  3. I realized I was not interested unless they could illustrate their point in 140 words or less. (Twitter). Start tweeting to your heart's desire.  "Tweet" me here  

          

 

 

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Ronald Searcy - January 28, 2009 12:18 AM

Keep me posted via email or facebook on new postings. I have read them all and find them entertaining as well as educational. This must be very time consuming.

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