Things We Have Lost to the Internet January 2022 Challenge
I recently read a book that was released earlier this year titled 100 things We’ve Lost to the Internet.
It is a book that will certainly get the brain cells working overtime, at least it did so for me.
When my grandmother passed in 1986, I envied the life she lived and the changes she saw. Born in 1898, she came to America on a ship across the Atlantic at 18 via Ellis Island, then onto Chicago, then onto San Jose, CA in 1962. I marveled at some of the changes she witnessed during her life. She was born before the Wright brothers historic flight at Kitty Hawk and witnessed humans walking on the moon. Her life saw the most incredible time of travel known to humans.
Fast forward to today. I first got onto the internet in 1999. Dial up. I bought a book from Amazon! I was also familiar with real estate migrating the MLS to an online source. Communication with clients via email became commonplace versus communicating by phone.
Pretty soon, in 2007, the iPhone was introduced, and nobody used the telephone to seemingly talk to anyone anymore. We had the internet in our pockets. No more Thomas Guides or Barclays maps. Clients began getting instant updates on predetermined property searches in specific neighborhoods. Blogs connected us to potential buyers and sellers, as we got to “drill down” into specific towns and neighborhoods and allowed us to inform the public of our services.
The book revealed things—some obvious, others not so obvious.
For example:
- When is the last time you saw or used a Rolodex?
- When is the last time you had to remember a phone number?
- The last time you saw a house on the market that was not on your list of homes to show, as the For Sale sign went up that morning?
- The last time you saw a phone on the kitchen wall?
No longer can we hide from a phone call or email. We are constantly connected, even at funerals and weddings or sitting in the waiting room at the Doctor’s office. The way we do business has changed drastically over the past two decades with the advent of the internet and the adaption of it by so many in the public. I never thought I’d see somebody buy a house off internet pictures, but it happens nowadays.
The Challenge:
- This Challenge is for you to reflect and write about what you think has been the biggest change the internet has brought to your business—both the way you do business and the way your clients do business with you.
- Write a post of at least 500 words and include a photo or graphic. You may write about as many changes as you’d like in your post, as I am sure there are more than one thing you can think of.
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Share the link to your post in the comment section of this post.
Your Hosts: Gary Frimann and Kathleen Daniels
The Points:
You will be awarded 1,500 points for your post.
The challenge starts today and ends January 31, 2022, at midnight PST.
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