Networking on the Internet: it’s only fashion?
I enjoy every day different services on the Internet that keep me connected with my friends and colleagues, albeit it takes me lots of time. Even on my Blackberry I have Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Google Mail, etc. I use it because I feel I get much of it. But when I explain it to other friends who are not familiar with social networking on the net, they just smile and think I’m a jerk. I read a post today (http://www.thenetworkthinker.com/2008/07/twitter.html) with some reflections on using Twitter as a networking tool. It’s written by Valdis Krebs in his Blog. In this post I’ve found some recommendations on how people should use to post their short 140 charactare messages on Twitter.
Many friends just write about what they’re doing aor what they plan to do, and it may be funny, but useless if it’s not a relative or someone very closed to you. Instead if the people (friends and colleagues) you’r following on Twitter would tell you what they’ve seen that could be interesting to you, or if they’ve a thought that could stimulate some reflection on you, this would make much more sense.
Connecting with people has not to be serious and practical all the time, we also need warmth and personal insights, but we should be aware that others want to know from us interesting things. If we open our posts to everyone with no segmentations, then we should think on writing messages that have interest to everyone of our pals.
