Ten years ago, my daily ration of personal emails was from 10 to 20 ... Today, down to very, very few.
In the mid to late 1970's, on my way to work and back, my CB radio was on permanently... chatting with "online " friends. People I didn't know and many bored truck drivers.
"Staying in Touch" consisted of handwritten letters or occasional expensive long distance telephone calls. Later on in the 1980's and 90's... Chat Rooms.
Fast forward to today. Flooded with information of all kinds, from every conceivable source, it seems that almost everyone, everywhere is connected all the time. I share the grid of information... news, personal interests and entertainment, but do not connect with the explosion of social networks... the person to person Facebook/Twitter type of Social Networking connections.
Instead of a survey, like "Do you use Facebook etc.?" I would really be interested in your answer to the question:
Will Social Networking Last? and will the 13 year old who is literally tied to the world through a smartphone... still be doing that when he/she is 25 years old? ... or will this be something that came and went... with a return to the concept of personal privacy in a limited social structure.
So, not what you do, but what you see as a future for Social Networking... pehaps 10 or 15 years in the future.
In the mid to late 1970's, on my way to work and back, my CB radio was on permanently... chatting with "online " friends. People I didn't know and many bored truck drivers.
"Staying in Touch" consisted of handwritten letters or occasional expensive long distance telephone calls. Later on in the 1980's and 90's... Chat Rooms.
Fast forward to today. Flooded with information of all kinds, from every conceivable source, it seems that almost everyone, everywhere is connected all the time. I share the grid of information... news, personal interests and entertainment, but do not connect with the explosion of social networks... the person to person Facebook/Twitter type of Social Networking connections.
Instead of a survey, like "Do you use Facebook etc.?" I would really be interested in your answer to the question:
Will Social Networking Last? and will the 13 year old who is literally tied to the world through a smartphone... still be doing that when he/she is 25 years old? ... or will this be something that came and went... with a return to the concept of personal privacy in a limited social structure.
So, not what you do, but what you see as a future for Social Networking... pehaps 10 or 15 years in the future.