Technology

I exchanged emails yesterday with a friend who shares some of my frustration with technology. We both feel that while technology can help make connections with people...think blogs, cellphones, skype, Facebook, Twitter....to truly have a connection and a relationship with someone, you have to interact in person. I know that I pick up a lot of information about people by their facial expressions and body language. For me, having a friend is much more than signing into the Facebook account or sending them a Tweet on Twitter every time I do something. Maybe I'm afraid my life is just too dull to be of interest to anyone moment-by-moment? I know this probably makes me an anachronism, a fossil, an old fuddy-duddy, but I can't help it! Yesterday on a conference call with other managers from my profession, someone suggested that we should use Facebook and Twitter to market our air medical programs. I had to mute the phone so I could scream! NO! that's just wrong!! We need to market interpersonal relationships, not fun facts on technology. Another acquaintance has explained it much better than I can and in a much funnier way. Click here to read what Rich Mayfield has to say about technology: The Practicing Progressive.