1. I feel guilty for making new "virtual" friendships when I can't seem to keep up with my "real" friendships.
If I spent as much time visiting with the 3-D people in my life as I do visiting with people I can only "see" by way of a still photo...or, if we're lucky, a vlog...I'd have a fuller social calendar than Megan Fox at a men's club.
2. I question the validity of my rationalization that all this time spent on the computer is actually good for business.
This doesn't feel like work at all. Oh, I tell myself it is. And I tell those around me that it is, too. But I have yet to do one true localism post or market report post. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Or perhaps conflicted about what I am doing here at all...?
3. I do not understand Facebook.
Yes, I said that. I mean, I'm on Facebook. And loads of friends and family members are on it, too, and they seem to "get together" and chat about things. I have no idea how to do this. Just the other day, two neighbours told me they had been on Facebook chatting the previous night. Funny, we used to sit outside together in the evenings and chat....
4. I'm afraid to know more about Facebook.
ActiveRain already takes so much of my time, as does feeding the blog on my web-site. How in the world can I afford to jump onto yet another social media platform and fully embrace it?
5. I believe there will be a time and a place for me to more fully embrace social media.
And that time will come when my munchkins no longer like hanging out with their mom and dad. Or when my husband and I lead truly separate lives (we both work at not letting that happen). But we're not there yet, and I'm so thankful for that. Truly.
6. I believe social media can be a virtual black hole of productivity...and a replacement for getting out there and being "real."
I think it has been for me, on many fronts. It's been a place for me to learn my voice, to speak my mind, to go through a difficult time in my life in a way that was, strange as it sounds, more private than pouring my heart out to my friends and family in person (and thereby burdening them, at least in my mind), to learn about real estate, to learn about writing, to learn about people in different parts of the world and, yes, to learn about this crazy world of social media.
But it's time for me to get more focused, more real, and more connected to the people I care about. I need to be more purposeful, disciplined and THERE...for myself, my loved ones, and yes, my business.
Life is short. Relationships are even shorter, if we don't take care of them.
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