I already know how old-fashioned I sound when I say, “When we were kids we rode bikes and played tag and baseball in the telephone lot beside my Nanny’s and frisbee in the street and walked on big wooden spools left by the telephone company and jumped rope.” I know I sound old when I say, “When we were in high school we picked up the telephone and talked to our friends and drove laps around town to meet them for face to face communication.” And I know I still sound old when I say, “As adults, we went to the lake and water skied and fished and played cards with friends and shared food and took our kids to the park and hiked and swam and played in the creek.”
I know recommended business practices insofar as social media from time spent with the Vandiver Group — but still, on Facebook, Farmtown bugs me less than my friends making business posts (and if y’all send me one more chicken I’m dumping you as a friend!). On Twitter, friends posting link after link that when clicked are merely sites wanting to sell me something do nothing but piss me off and waste my time.
Miley Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana, shut down her Twitter account, and is urging friends to get rid of Internet addictions and concentrate on life. Fans are upset, and it’s reported even her father is pleading with her to reopen and again take time to let the world know what she’s doing. What is wrong with a 16 year-old not spending a ton of time on a Twitter account? And do her tweets really promote her career?
My feelings are mixed in this regard — yours may be too when you see this…
According to CNN, the movie that took a mere $11k to produce, ‘Paranormal Activity’, raked in $7.1 million bucks over the weekend using a campaign of limited showings, social media and word-of-mouth fan buzz. They didn’t even have a traditional movie trailer. Wow!
On the other hand, you have Beyonce. This tweet should get you up-to-speed…
I guess everything in moderation — but still, I just don’t know…