Wrapping your mind around tweets, pokes, reblogs.

Do you have the clear picture of all the social media sites and how they affect your day to day? Why the attraction and what need it fulfills on the personal, professional, societal level to mingle, connect?  

     Are the people, members of the social media experience you interact with and their comments the chemistry that make the wheels turn? Cause you to revisit, want to contribute? Is not knowing how the thread of your life statements and the reaction to them the social essence of it all? Or is it like one big party or family reunion or group therapy?

Do you just like watching other people's conversations... sitting back and seeing how the rest of the world reacts, lives?

Complete with their kids images, news about their work, sports team, their funny, dry, sick or twisted sense of humor?

Someone out there cares, follows you and checks in with concern with an absence? Do you not have time to have a social life? Does this fit when you have twenty minutes here and there? Or find people close boring but the exotic new friends far away new and different, refreshing? Is the other end in prison, being something they are not.

    

As you scan the images of a "friend", are you surprised to see hammered to the gills pictures at parties where things look way way out of hand? And you know someone had vise grips, a c-clamp on their head the entire next day?

Or was driving the porcelain bus for the rest of the night shortly after those hullabaloo series of the party photos somebody uploaded for the world to see. Whatever floats your boat. Your own page on this or that site. Nose to the grindstone work image? The comments spade is a spade black and white the "feel" ? Or what beams, broadcasts, radiates from it..the impression a total stranger would arrive at? Full of family, sickness details, look at my new this, how I hate my job that whining? Is site poster a full of joy, praise individual? Or luke warm, complainer, bipolar spikes up and down?

Little, small events or other people details blown way out of proportion that makes their "friends" wonder..why doesn't someone say what I am thinking? To throttle or shake that gal to tell her how lucky she is but to ask how can she is be so negative? Hey, you picked these guys and gals for friends remember? All two thousand of them...friends you have never really met, but collected to appear social, a person that others want to be associated with or laugh at your jokes? The motivation and what you get out of social media. Are you on twitter, myspace, facebook, linked in? And Flickr? Wasn't that one of the horses some big silver screen star rode after Trigger or Silver or some other famous horse other than Mr Ed died?

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers