Hi my name is David Alston and I’m a social media addict.
Well it’s the 2nd day of 2008 and like many others I’m considering what I need to change about my life in the year ahead. I’m comin
g off of a great holiday break which provided lots of time to decompress and spend time with loved ones. Whenever vacation does roll around each year I go through a struggle. And I don’t think I’m alone.
Social media and networking is a wonderful thing. It connects you directly with those sharing similar interests in a way unmatched by anything in the past basically because it has very few geographic and time boundaries. This power to connect with others who share the same passions as you tends to pull you deeper into the hobbies and work you love. However it can come with a price.
Unfortunately no one has invented a clock that adds more time to the standard 24 hour day. For each moment spent inside social media is a moment not spent with family and friends. And it’s so easy to forget this because social media is snacksized and easy to consume. Traditional relationships, spending time playing a game with a child, dinner with your spouse, lending an ear on a call with a friend all are full course meals, if I continue with the analogy. And they are important.
So my number one resolution this year is to find balance – to invest in both social media and traditional family and friends relationships. Social media is not going away and to ignore it or withdraw from it would be akin to becoming a digital hermit. No, I want to have both but not at the expense of the relationships in either one. 2008 is about balance.
January 2nd, 2008 - Posted in media snacking, social media | | 0 Comments
