Social networking...imagine

There are so many social networks out there, it's hard to keep track.  Several that our company encourages us to utilize are:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• Handshake
• Gladhandle
• Active rain

These coupled with our email, personal websites, cell phones (with email and camera capabilities of course), landlines, and of course the in person "meet & greets".  What on earth would we do without them all?  How did we survive growing up without texting, blogging or tweeting?

I actually drug out an old typewriter the other day and found the keys so stiff and hard to control. It's hard to imagine when the typewriter, dictaphone and that old rotary phone was so cool. I barely remember the party line where I grew up; but I do remember. Imagine the scandals & gossip we heard by simply picking up that old black phone and eavesdropping on our neighbors.  I remember our phone number was 2 shorts and a long ring tone.  Imagine if we still used those to communicate now? Imagine if I asked my Son to call me at 2 shorts and a long. His head would explode :)

Imagine if we didn't have an mls and had to use those 3" thick books to look up new, pending or closed listings (& that wasn't that long ago). My how we've grown!  It's hard to imagine that we can get more advanced than we already are. When will we find the time to breathe? Right now you look on facebook and posts include going to bed now...just woke up and having coffee... taking the day off to enjoy with my family (really...is that why your on facebook?  Its a family thing?).But, imagine if we didn't log in, upload or hit reply on a daily basis...our inbox, message notifications, voice mails, chats or IM would be loaded with 250 missed messages, beeps or blinks & we can't have it beep or blink without at least looking at it (even if we don't reply).

I'm the worlds worst to communicate via email or texting and I don't know why. You would think since I'm in a service industry, I'd want a live conversation, but here I am on Active Rain talking to thousands and talking to no one at the same time.

We are strange, aren't we?