What is amazing with internet is the number of people who have not met each other, but believe that they know each other through their keyboard. You might think that this is far fetched until you look into the virtual communities that have formed through the use of technology. Students of University and College ages have never been without keyboards. Keyboard contact has become a global. Close circles of friends has grown to global communication of like minds. Not necessarily friends where it started but of keyboards and commentary.
Communication from one soul to others can be private with levels of access, permissions or open world collaboration. Various networks have communication with different purposes.
Some evolving categories are Social Media Websites, Networking Sites, Bookmarking Sites,Media Sharing Sites,Photo Sharing sites,Wiki’s,Community sites and mixes of the above. The commonality of it all is communal communication and connectivity.
What is real and not virtual is that social network people spend a lot of time with their machines talking and keyboarding much the way that I am doing now. Do these connectivity media using personal powerful communication tools develop a herd instinct in thinking or do they give cultural options in thinking? I believe the jury is still out on that question. There is both a lot of diversity and sameness of opinions. There is a lot of good stuff and mistrusts out there that have to be separated by the reader.
Whether it is a face book, flickr, dig, friends, linked in, del.icio.us, zappuu, you tube, google video, wikipedia, agolco, or others the person at the keyboard should be thinking not reacting when posting material. Thinking and not responding produces an intelligent content. Thinking is more than reading the facts screen. Communication within virtual communities has the power to influence many people you do not physically know see or heard of before you type in your text. Do not type randomly without thought.
Developing some thinking skills with something like Mind Tools or similar sites. Thinking goes a long way to improve the social media networks. Thinking skills separate the good social sites and the bling bling sites. Enjoy your keyboard, enjoy your sites. Think properly and stay connected to real people doing real things gaining real experiences. Connectivity and communication is with real people.
FSL North Bay
